Word: drummonds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...schedule so strenuous that it reminded Ike-dogging Columnist Roscoe Drummond that people used to worry about the President's health. "Mr. Eisenhower," wrote Drummond wearily, "is standing this hectic drought trip better than most of the correspondents...
...there is something wrong with this play. It always seems just on the verge of becoming memorable as well as exciting--but never quite gets there. In changing the names of the people involved--Bryan becomes Brady and Darrow, Drummond--Messers. Lawrence and Lee would seem to be saying that they have reserved the right to alter the story. Nobody would begrudge them this right, except for the fact that the changes they made nearly always constitute clever dramatic effects. Thus, for instance, Bryan collapses spectacularly after the end of the trial. It's a neat trick, since it automatically...
...vote." But the Chicago Tribune's Walter Trohan contended that the last two weeks of the old 1948 campaign saw "certain" Republican victory "transformed to crushing defeat." and noted that the Democrats have "a hard hitting team" this time. The New York Herald Tribune's Roscoe Drummond thought that Stevenson and Estes Kefauver were off to a fast start, with a big improvement in the Democratic nominee's campaign technique, organization and party morale. "Mr. Stevenson," he said, "is a more forceful, more informal, more effective campaigner than before. Mr. Kefauver is a formidable ally...
...YORK HERALD TRIBUNE'S ROSCOE DRUMMOND...
Columnists and pundits, even those syndicated by the Herald Tribune, began wrangling over the book. David Lawrence charged the White House with blundering ineptitude in letting Donovan in. The volume, he wrote, "contains much ammunition useful to the Democrats." But Columnist Roscoe Drummond thought that the White House's "calculated risk'' had produced "an honest, balanced, faithful, narrative record" of the Administration. Drummond also dismissed the Congressmen's objections. He wrote: "Presidents have always affirmed that it is the executive's responsibility to determine how, when, what, to whom and under what circumstances it will...