Word: drummonds
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Editor Whitelaw Reid of the New York Herald Tribune has long wanted his paper to run the column "State of the Nation," written by the Christian Science Monitor's able Washington Bureau Chief Roscoe Drummond. But the Trib could not buy the column; the Monitor allows no syndication of its features. This week "Whitey" Reid took more direct action to get the column and, at the same time, filled the top spot in his paper's 15-man Washington bureau, second largest newspaper bureau in the capital (first: the New York Times). He named Roscoe Drummond, 51, chief...
...TIME, July 13), Editor Clayton Fritchey explained that one of its main objectives was to help "redress the imbalance of ... the one-party editorial pages" in the U.S. press. No sooner had the first issue hit the stands than the Christian Science Monitor's Washington Bureau Chief Roscoe Drummond made a revealing discovery. Wrote Correspondent Drummond: "What one-party press is Fritchey talking about? More than half the cartoons [criticizing the Administration] and the clear majority of the editorial quotations . . . are from Republican newspapers. Could it be that the Democratic Digest is accidentally and unwittingly bearing evidence that...
Elizabeth's Diary. The dead man was Sir Jack Drummond, 61, famed British biochemist, who had devised Britain's palate-poor but vitamin-rich World War II diet of cabbage salads, carrots, grey wheaten bread, potato pastry, and dried eggs. Scientific adviser to wartime Food Minister Lord Woolton he had developed an emergency meal for the bombed-out called blitz soup, and later a predigested food for starved survivors of Hitler's prison camps. A quiet, modest but convivial man, Sir Jack (he refused to be known by his correct Christian names: John Cecil) had once collaborated...
...Moon Was High. Surprised by the killer, Sir Jack, onetime college welterweight boxer, had apparently resisted until two shots got him. Four bullets more accounted for Lady Drummond. Elizabeth, a witness of the murders, had fled toward the river, but the killer had overtaken her, clubbed her to death with the butt of his rifle. If money was his objective, as it possibly was, the killer had overlooked 5,000 francs ($14) in Lady Drummond's handbag. In the river, police found the murder weapon: a U.S. Army M1 carbine...
...gendarmes, flying squads, villagers and passing tourists, milling around the Drummond camp, had obliterated all possible clues. Footprint experts, fingerprint experts and bloodhounds were unable to pick up a lead, though Parisian headlines feared what the unsolved murder might do to French tourism. It seemed likely that the only record of the Drummond family's last hours would remain Elizabeth's entry in her diary of the evening before: "The moon is high and shining. We are camping. I have just done something I always wanted to do. All alone I went swimming in the river-like...