Word: lovelornist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Partisans on the other side are equally outspoken. They range from Chicago's Syndicated Lovelornist Ann Landers, an all-out advocate of home shelters, to President John Kennedy. Said Kennedy in a July 25 television speech to the nation: "To recognize the possibilities of nuclear war in the missile age without our citizens' knowing what they should do and where they should go would be a failure of responsibility." In the coming months, he said, the U.S. Government would undertake to "let every citizen know what steps he can take without delay to protect his family in case...
...gorge of Al Ricketts' readers is forever rising. Of the Pacific Stars and Stripes columnists, who include Walter Lippmann, Joseph Alsop, Red Smith and Lovelornist Abigail Van Buren, the most widely read by far is Ricketts, a Buddha-shaped (5 ft. 4 in., 175 Ibs.) 32-year-old who chomps a long black cigar with a ferocity suggestive of filmdom's bad guy, Edward G. Robinson (see cut). The Ricketts wit is the sort that leads to lynching. As entertainment editor of the Pacific Stars and Stripes, the U.S. armed forces newspaper in the Far East with...