Word: columnists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...secretary and, within minutes, Robert Houghwout Jackson was dead. In his 62 years he rose to eminence among lawyers, served with ability as U.S. Solicitor General and Attorney General, as Supreme Court Justice and as U.S. prosecutor at Nürnberg. When Jackson was named Attorney General, New Dealing Columnist Marquis Childs wrote: "If there is any single individual who represents all the qualities that commonly inhere in the term [New Dealer], it is the man who has just been made Attorney General of the U.S." But Robert Jackson could not be so easily defined; he was a hard...
Recipe for Happiness. Columnist Sidney Skolsky, who often escorted Marilyn to Hollywood premieres, managed to get through to her, reported "exclusively," "There is no other man." Since no other reporters could interview the principals, the newsmen did the next best thing; they interviewed each other, tracked down friends of Marilyn's and Joe's, dug back in their memories and files, and wrote stories under such headlines as NIGHTS WERE...
...downhearted. Born the same year that Enrico Caruso died (1921), Mario feels that nature intended him as Caruso's replacement. To underline the idea, he has faithfully followed Caruso's taste in black Homburgs and spats. The legacy was further ex plained by Mario to Columnist Earl Wilson: "God gave me my voice as a gift- and I am only the keeper of the voice...
...Cassandra" of the London Daily Mirror, biggest daily (circ. 4,535,687) in the world, owl-shaped, sharp-tongued William Neil Connor, 45, is the hardest-hitting and most-quoted columnist in Britain. Cassandra combines the terrible temper of a Westbrook Pegler with the calculated irreverence of an H. L. Mencken. "It is a pity," Sir Winston Churchill once said, "that so able a writer should show himself so dominated by malevolence." Even his own paper often finds his comments hard to take, but suffers them because of his circulation-building appeal. Says Mirror Editorial Director Hugh Cudlipp: "Cassandra disagrees...
...born (County Derry) Bill Connor has been Cassandra ever since he started in newspapering on the Mirror in 1935. The son of a civil servant, Cassandra did a variety of odd jobs until Mirror editors, intrigued by his arrogant, self-assured, insulting ways, gave him a job as a columnist. Cassandra ("One of those titles cooked up in a pub") was an overnight success. He also got the paper into very hot water, which is just where the saucy, sensational Mirror likes...