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...than that, it does not have to be a newspaper in the traditional sense. "It could be a vastly smaller operation with a different philosophy and outlook," says one publisher. "I've always thought that there was a place in New York for another highbrow newspaper," says Walter Lippmann. "It's what the Herald Tribune should have been and what the W.J.T. was not. I mean an excellent newspaper, not a big paper like the Times. It should have the best art, music, financial and political criticism that you could get. I wouldn't expect...
While others were contemplating a second afternoon daily, the existing one went calmly on its way as usual. Dorothy Schiff's liberal New York Post picked up some of the castoffs of the feature-fat W.J.T.: the Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service, Columnists Walter Lippmann, Evans and Novak, Art Buchwald-and even right-wing William Buckley Jr. "The New York Post," explained a disclaimer, "recognizing its altered role as the only afternoon newspaper in New York, believes that it is a part of its journalistic duty to convey some expression of viewpoints different from...
Getting into the spirit, Columnist Art Buchwald recorded several graffiti from Washington: "Governor Romney-Would you buy a new car from this man?" "Adam Clayton Powell uses Man-Tan." "George Wallace uses hair straightener." "Walter Lippmann-God is not dead. He is alive and appearing twice a week in the Washington Post...
...McCarthy era, Arnold has impeccable credentials as a defender of dissent. Yet his speech was a blistering denunciation of "alienated intellectuals" who take the position that "dissent deserves special consideration, immunity from criticism and the right to shout down persons who disagree with them." Arnold recalled that Columnist Walter Lippmann, who thinks that the U.S. had no business sending ground troops to Asia in the '60s, also objected to American intervention in Europe in 1940 after Hitler's conquest of France. "Had Mr. Lippmann's advice been followed," said Arnold, "Hitler might have won the war." Arnold...
...black-tie dinner at Washington's Federal City Club was a farewell affair for Pundit Walter Lippmann, 77, who is leaving the capital after 29 years to write his political columns from New York. It was supposed to be a private affair, and the club's president, Columnist Charles Bartlett, was shocked a few days later to find that the Washington Post had published the text of Lippmann's remarks at the party-a wry goodbye to Washington and a few observations on U.S. foreign policy. "The dignity of the occasion," Bartlett huffily told Post Managing Editor...