Word: columnists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among U.S. newspaper columnists, Leonard Lyons, 47, is the No. 1 name-dropper. Columnist Lyons bears his title proudly, and his chatter about celebrities in his column, "The Lyons Den," syndicated to 74 dailies, earns him $65,000 a year. This week Columnist Lyons explained why name-dropping makes a successful column. "Would you [like me to] tell you about a dinner party for my Uncle Max? . . . Nah, you really don't want to hear about that . . . The basic fact of newspaper life is that if any Uncle Max-unless it's Beerbohm, Beaverbrook or Factor-breaks...
...Shuster, Harcourt and Brace, and Alfred Knopf all went there; so did Rodgers and Hart and Hammerstein II. In the newspaper field, Columbia boasts a variety of opinion-makers, from the Times's Arthur Hays Sulzberger to the New York Post's Editor James Wechsler to Hearst Columnist George Sokolsky...
Political columnist Joseph Alsop '32 defended the Eisenhower administration last night against charges that the businessman has no place in government...
...when her first husband, Igor (Cholly Knickerbocker) Cassini, went off to war. But, said she, it "was a luxury from the beginning. Now I find it's a luxury that I can't afford." The Times-Herald had no trouble finding a suitable replacement. The new columnist: Maryland McCormick, 55, wife of Colonel Robert R. McCormick, the Times-Herald (and Chicago Tribune) publisher. Maryland's new column started off this week on a subject on which both she and her predecessor are undisputed experts: publishers' wives. Says Mrs. McCormick, with a touch of the outspokenness that...
Most provocative was the discovery by a Daily Herald columnist of a 1954 calendar issued by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association ascribing Britain's troubles to socialism in the following, flat terms: "And, when the war ended, a sense of frustration and disillusionment gripped England, and what Hitler's bombs could not do, socialism with its accompanying evils shortly accomplished." The Laborite Herald ran the story under the headline, APOLOGIZE, BILLY−OR STAY AWAY! Laborite M.P. Geoffrey de Freitas announced that he would ask a question in the House about why Graham was allowed to come...