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This Waldorf-Astoria lunch was a portent of the big-time buildup to come, a publicity campaign sketched out by high-priced public-relations expert Edward L. Bernays. But part of the publicity that followed wasn't in the Bernays blueprint. To reporters. Wallace pooh-poohed Senator Vandenberg's conversion to internationalism, credited it to young (37), able James Reston, national reporter of the New York Times. Next day Reston wrote a letter to the editor of the Times. Said...
...Meat. In Chicago, Lincoln Park Zoo Director R. Marlin Perkins pooh-poohed the meat shortage, recommended his favorite dish : fried rattlesnake...
...Yardlings, a missionary from the Divinity School, and a Milne enthusiast from the Green-Forest more widely known as Radcliffe gathered in Grays Hall yesterday afternoon to brew some Pooh which splattered on such diverse personalities as Charles W. Duhig '29, assistant dean of the College, and Glover Rueter '46, dean of a local humor society...
...want to know who we are, We're the hucksters of radio. . . . . We're vice presidents and clerks, Confidentially, we're all jerks. . . . There was no mistaking the tune. With apologies to Gilbert & Sullivan, Fred Allen, radio's comic Pooh-bah, this week joined the growing ranks of the industry's flagellants with a withering burlesque: The Radio Mikado, written by Allen...
Back in 1896-the year when Adolph S. Ochs bought control of the tired Times for $75,000-ambitious young (33) Hearst picked up the tottering Journal for $180,-ooo. Over at the World (according to the Journal's historians), Joseph Pulitzer pooh-poohed: "No one from the West lasts in New York." Before long such Pulitzer prizes as Arthur Brisbane, S. S. Carvalho and Merrill Goddard were working for Hearst, and inside of a year the Journal's circulation skyrocketed from...