Word: punditing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guildsman and no crusader, leathery Bert Andrews, 46, had stubbornly stuck to his reporter's last through seven years as the Trib's top capital hand. A Washington assignment offers subtle temptations: if a reporter is not careful he may turn into a pundit, or a cocktail-swigging socialite, or become a power behind some politician's throne. Such lures have left Andrews cold. In Albany and way points (Sacramento, Chicago, the Paris Herald, and Manhattan), he learned to keep his nose for news clean, and his news sources at arm's length...
After a year of life, Pundit-Publisher David Lawrence's weekly World Report was still losing money. The rate, said office gossip, was $10,000 a week. Last week Lawrence merged the magazine with his weekly U.S. News. Lloyd Lehrbas, executive editor of World Report and onetime roving correspondent with the A.P., resigned. As many as possible of his 50 Report staffers, said Lawrence, would be absorbed by the merged newsmagazine...
Critic's Teeth. Liebling has decided prejudices of his own. "The Sun" he says, "is a suburban paper published "on the island of Manhattan . . . as perfectly preserved as the corpse of Lenin." Liebling's impression of Pundit Walter Lippmann: "Nowtherefore and whereas and ahem." PM's Max Lerner writes editorials "like an elephant treading the dead body of a mouse into the floor of its cage." Liebling often rags the Chicago Tribune and Bertie McCormick, but wonders if it "isn't like punching the heavy bag. The Colonel is in the direct line of Dickens...
William Cunningham, Boston Herald sports pundit, regretfully declined yesterday because he would be "out of town...
...circulation is currently at an all-time peak, but is still pretty small. But among the 20,000 people who pay a stiff $1.25 a copy are many key legislators, editors, and Government officials. Pundit Walter Lippmann is devoting 14 columns to a rebuttal of an article in Foreign Affairs signed by "X," who is actually the State Department's Chief Policy Planner George F. Kennan (TIME, Sept...