Word: columnists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brigadier General Elliott Roosevelt, who is never out of the news-or hot water-very long, was in both last week. Splenetic Columnist Westbrook Pegler, an old Roosevelt-hater, pulled the cork on a long bottled-up story. There was much of Pegler foam & fume; there was also a muddy brew...
Warm Week. But the whole thing opened again with a bang with Columnist Pegler's disclosures. The almost forgotten rearguard action which A. & P. has been fighting with the U.S. Government became front-page news again. Last week A. & P. and its public relations firm of Carl Byoir & Associates were sweating through a federal trial in Danville, Ill., charged with violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. John Hartford, home in Valhalla, N.Y., sweated through a golf game, spluttered: "I'll have to talk to my lawyer...
...constantly digging for "confidential" information, began to wonder where they stood. At his press conference, Secretary Grew admitted that the State Department often classifies material "top secret" but makes it available as background for news stories. Irritated for months by leaks, the State Department still rankled over a Washington columnist's revelation last December of a secret Churchill message to General Scobie to treat Athens as a conquered city...
...that the campaign might have moved faster if the III Marine Amphibious Corps had been used last month for an end-run landing in the south, behind the Jap lines, instead of being thrown into a power drive at the Shuri line alongside the Army's XXIV Corps. Columnist David Lawrence picked up the cry and shrilled about the "military fiasco at Okinawa ... a worse example of military incompetence than Pearl Harbor." He blamed the Navy's heavy losses, in ships and men, on the "bungling" which had prolonged the conquest...
...demand frequent references to admirals and generals, a heavy accent on I and not enough on G.I. Miller's Washington editors cabled him, suggesting that he change his approach. Instead, still depressed by his friend's death and by his own inability to catch on as a columnist, Lee Miller gave up last week and came home-after one month and five days in Ernie Pyle's spot...