Word: punditing
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...columnist. No less than 1,200 weekly papers carried his "This Week" contribution. Some 200 dailies beside the Hearstpapers ran "Today." As editor of the Hearst tabloid New York Daily Mirror, Mr. Brisbane turned out eight columns of special editorials a week. And every week in the Sunday Hearstpapers, Pundit Brisbane furnished the text for an illustrated page which dramatized some tremendous, if obvious, thought, or outlined the contents of a classic biography or history...
...Tovarich), owl-eyed Brooks Atkinson of New York Times chuckled, applauded, said: "Tovarich is the season's first hit." On same day, scholarly, professorial looking John Mason Brown of the Post said: "Tovarich is the first smash hit of the season." Richard Watts, Jr., blue-shirted, plumpish pundit of Herald Tribune called Tovarich "the first resounding dramatic smash of the season." Equally in accord were other critics...
...News-Chicago Tribune syndicate. Comic Artist Goldberg was vexed at the idea of drawing another cartoonist's characters. Next thing the trade knew, Rube Goldberg was working up a new feature whose principal character, a fat female clown, was christened Lala Palooza after consultation with Yale's Pundit William Lyon Phelps. By last week, with 75 papers signed up* by a new syndicate headed by Frank Jay Markey, it was evident that editors expected from the new Goldbergian feature the old Goldbergian...
...fact that nowhere in the British Isles had any newspaper or magazine yet coupled the names of the King and Mrs. Simpson, or the facts of their friendship and her divorce. This had been done only by a mimeographed London weekly tipsheet, The Week, of negligible circulation. Pontificated Pundit Lippmann: "The reticence of the British press cannot be put down to an effort of the King to suppress knowledge of his regard for Mrs. Simpson. The true explanation is that the British press is forbidden by a recently enacted law to make a public spectacle out of any divorce case...
...Georgetown, British Guiana, Pundit Mahangoo married a third time on his 106th birthday, squeaked: "I believe love rejuvenates...