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...October, 1939, he might have foreseen the end of prohibition. But nothing in the world of 1929 or in its habits of thought would have prepared him for the surprises of 1939; for the emergence of women in independent political roles, for such phenomena as that of Pundit Dorothy Thompson, gravely lecturing businessmen who would have regarded her as a hopeless Red before the crash had taken its toll of their certainties. But deeply familiar would have been a Congress debating as it did last week under the same old rules and a top-hatted nine-man Supreme Court paying...
...conclusively. . . . The best that Congress can hope to do now is to adopt that policy which, on a cool estimate of the probabilities as we know them today, seems the least likely to have consequences which will put us in a difficult and dangerous position later on." So wrote Pundit Walter Lippmann last week. Having done so, he proceeded to review the arguments on both sides of the question.* Herewith is an outline (after Lippmann) of the arguments pro & con, a sort of debater's handbook...
Died. Lawrence Gilman, 61, famed music pundit of the New York Herald Tribune, author, commentator, program annotator for the Philharmonic Society of New York; of a heart attack, in Sugar Hill...
...book on Russia was best known as the inspiration for Sinclair Lewis's renowned brawl with Theodore Dreiser, whom he accused of plagiarizing it. She had written a few articles for The Saturday Evening Post and was considered an intelligent journalist, but she was a reporter and no pundit. Then, in March 1936, Mrs. Ogden Reid, super-clubwoman vice president of the New York Herald Tribune, hired her to write a column. It was to run on the same page as Lippmann's Today and Tomorrow, three times a week, and it was expected to present the woman...
Hitler, Goebbels and Alfred Rosenberg (Naziland's cultural Fuhrer) have long looked for a literary renaissance in Germany. They shout their complete confidence that one is on the way. Nazi Cultural Pundit Wilfred Bade declares: "The new Germany must have authors; but we need not be afraid that they will not appear...