Word: columnists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Steve Early, an old A.P. hand. He not only helped get out the Big Three's communiqué, but was probably responsible for such side stories as the conference at Malta, and the news that Bronx Boss Ed Flynn went along. The New York Daily News's Columnist John O'Donnell, whose words of praise for anything Rooseveltian are rare as a miser's largesse, was moved to remark: "The best job of reporting that the competent Early has turned in since . . . he scooped the world on the smash yarn that President Harding was dead...
...Columnist Joe Hatcher "has a low, filthy, diseased mind-lies by nature. . . . He is full of ululation...
Hope for the Best (by William Mc-Cleery; produced by Jean Dalrymple & Marc Connelly) casts Franchot Tone -absent from Broadway since 1940 - as a famous columnist. He has 11,000,000 readers lapping up his harmless froth, but what he yearns after is to feed them politics and liberalize their thinking. Scared out of trying by his highbrow, reactionary fiancée, he finally borrows enough gumption from a sympathetic young girl (Jane Wyatt)- incidentally swapping fiancées while crossing his Rubicon...
...Wrote Sport Columnist Grantland Rice: "It wouldn't be so bad if these Brooklyn College players were the only offenders. . . . I know of more than one college football game . . . under heavy suspicion. My informants were members...
...other target was hit even harder. Columnist Mowrer had accused the Vatican of "supporting fascism against democracy" before the war, and wanted to know the future political designs of U.S. Roman Catholics. Such language, said Thackrey, who had printed it, was "intolerant . . . designed to insult his fellow Americans of the Roman Catholic faith." It was "stupid . . . Ku Klux Klanism, and worse. . . . No conscious fascist could have phrased it better." At week's end Mowrer had not chosen to reply in print. Said he: "Of course I could go down and talk it out with Thackrey, but my tailor hasn...