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...Colyumist F(ranklin) P(ierce) A (dams), famed precisian, mentioned the matter to TIME in a telephone conversation...
Like oldtime court jesters, newspaper colyumists are privileged-nay, obliged- to play horse with the serious news of the day. But just as the jester was in danger of having his head lopped off if his boldness should outrun his wit, so must the colyumist watch carefully lest he shock the Average Reader's sensibilities. Readers of Colyumist Harry Irving Phillips (''The Sun Dial") in the New York Sun one day last week wondered whether he had gone...
...Colyumist Heywood Broun of the New-York World-Telegram, as part of his daily stint, related a story which "a priest told me of Cardinal Gibbons. . . . When he returned from Rome a newspaper friend asked him: 'Now that you have been to the Vatican do you still believe in the infallibility of the Pope?' and Cardinal Gibbons smiled and said : 'Well, he called me Jibbons.' " The identical story had been told by Morgan Partner Thomas William Lamont at last fortnight's Academy of Political Science dinner for Walter Lippmann (TIME, March 30). At that dinner...
...Colyumist Broun recalled how the late Editor Frank Irving Cobb of the late New York World, after campaigning bitterly against the mayoralty (1910-13) of William Jay Gaynor, took back nothing when Gaynor died (Sept. 12, 1913). Cobb wrote: "What the World said of William J. Gaynor . . . after Tammany had refused to renominate him for Mayor, it desires to repeat now. . . . Had the Mayor been able to control himself as sturdily as he was able to resist control from the outside he would be a commanding figure. . . . " More violently, William Allen White wrote: "Frank Munsey, the great publisher, is dead...
...Harvard student in 1906?1910, Colyumist Broun flunked French, was not graduated...