Word: columnists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...resign from office if Congress disapproved (by a two-thirds majority) any agreement he signed with a foreign power. Then Congress would elect a new President. The suggestion might have been considered harebrained had it not come from the most widely syndicated political pundit in the U.S. The pundit: Columnist David Lawrence, 65, whose "Today in Washington." sold by the New York Herald Tribune to 257 U.S. newspapers, is the respected voice of right-wing Republicans. In Lawrence's mixture of news and opinion Eisenhower Republicans often find as little to agree with as do Fair Deal Democrats...
Tragic & Dynamic. Columnist Lawrence, who calls himself a "conservative liberal," is a man of deep, if contradictory, convictions. He has backed the Republican presidential candidate every year since he voted for Hoover in 1932 (on the ground that it was "dangerous to change parties in mid-Depression"); yet he is a devout Wilsonian ("Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom principles were the major philosophical stamp on my thought") and a registered Democrat in Fairfax County, Va., where he lives. He is a lifelong internationalist, a staunch supporter of the League of Nations and the U.N., has backed the Marshall Plan...
...since the days when Red Grange was roaming the gridirons has ex-Sports-writer Westbrook Pegler found much to admire in men on the public stage. But last week Hearst Columnist Pegler, on a trip to the Dominican Republic (pop. 2,200,000), found a new hero: Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. In a series on Trujillo and the country he rules, Pegler wrote...
...Columnist Gordon longs for the old days when embassy staffs were small and Washington's select social group stood out like the monument. Says she: "It really isn't society anymore." Nevertheless. Evie has adjusted herself to the new social bureaucracy, nowadays frequently prints items about such relative newcomers as Hostesses Perle Mesta and Gwen Cafritz. While Evie Gordon travels among the elite, the bulk of her public-and some of her best sources-are such people as doormen and automobile callers at Washington receptions. One denizen of the social world once said to her: "Oh Evie, somebody...
...that check up . . .' " Concluded Columnist Parker: "As I looked back at the healthy specimen I saw waving a fond adieu, I impulsively exclaimed: 'What a built...