Word: punditing
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...shoveled coke for the Santa Fe ("Very good for the arms") and drove a delivery truck. At Stanford, doing what came naturally, he quickly became a big man on campus. "He was the eternal sophomore," says Fellow Alumnus Earl Behrens, who became the San Francisco Chronicle's political pundit and a close friend of the governor's. "Everyone knew he was around." In college Goodie learned to tapdance, won a gold medal for debating, permanently dented his nose as a halfback on the rugby team, and was elected class orator. Among the coeds, he was a fickle Apollo...
...tried the Times's Washington bureau. But Pundit Arthur Krock, who then headed the 24-man bureau, also advised him to go somewhere else and get some reporting experience. The Scripps-Howard tabloid Washington Daily News had the job; it hired Lewis and he quickly made a mark as a byline reporter. In 1953, when he began looking into the records of Government employees who had been fired as security risks, he came across the unpublicized case of Abraham Chasanow, suspended by the Navy Department (TIME, May 10, 1954). Reporter Lewis wrote a five-part series on Chasanow...
...Davis of West Virginia and New York began to pull ahead of the other also-rans, until William Jennings Bryan, den mother of the Democrats, cast aside his palmetto fan and rose to denounce Davis as the advocate of Wall Street. Next day William Randolph Hearst's supreme pundit, Arthur Brisbane, reported it: "Instantly, Davis' vote dropped away to practically nothing, and there it will stay. For. as Mr. Bryan said, you can't nominate the lawyer of J. Pierpont Morgan for President of the United States." The following day, Davis won the nomination by acclamation...
...Public Philosophy, Pundit Lippmann comes to some challenging conclusions about the ills that plague the democracies. He weakens his argument by not differentiating between the democracies-between the chronically sick French variety, for instance, and the vigorous but complex American form. But his diagnosis is well worth listening to: 1) public opinion is dominating the executive branch of democratic governments to the point of enfeeblement and paralysis, and 2) the democracies have abandoned the philosophy on which they were founded, i.e., the principle of the natural...
...California's noisy Democratic Representative Chet Holifield shot from the lip. "Mr. Chairman," said Holifield, "no matter how deep you bury it, it is still going to smell bad." Holifield may have been right, although not in the way he meant. Commented the New York Times's Pundit Arthur Krock: "The most unattractive exhibition of partisan politics the capital has witnessed for years is the row over the Dixon-Yates contract . . . these Democrats themselves have made the controversy bitter. And they have augmented its heat and scope by forcing into the area of partisan politics what should...