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...Pundit Walter Lippmann wondered last week whether it is "good public morals" for the Republican leader of the Senate to oppose the Republican President of the U.S. But Bill Knowland has no known pangs of conscience. He has always made it abundantly clear that his primary obligation is to the Republican Party, not to Ike. Even so, it is the Republican Party that Knowland may in the end hurt most, for, as Conservative Columnist David Lawrence (see PRESS) said last week, "If the leadership of President Eisenhower is forsaken by an influential bloc in his party, the 'modern Republicans...
...Roberto, however, came closest to unburdening himself when he told some of New Delhi's staunchest citizens: "I have fallen in love with India. I intend to become an Indian citizen and not return to Italy." The week's developments were perhaps best summed up by Hollywood Pundit Sheilah Graham: "I'm inclined to believe that there is trouble in [Ingrid's] marriage with Rossellini...
Famed chiefly for his bestselling recreations of great events (The Day Lincoln Was Shot, The Day Christ Died), Author Bishop insists that he is "not to be confused with a pundit." "Most of all," he assured readers, "I like to write stories about little people . . . A story a day. Each one, I hope, with a thought-provoking moral." In its first three weeks the column heart-warmed readers with stories about Bandleader Frankie Carle, "little man at the big piano"; Bishop's little mother, "a short, stout woman [with] a beautiful figure"; his two little daughters; an auto accident...
Meanwhile, back at the agency that produced the ad. Adman Howard Becker modestly disclaimed any special talent for creating the likeness of a radio pundit. Said he: "It's simple, really. If you speak in a portentous voice, write copy in short, terse style, make everything sound important, you sound like Murrow-no matter...
Even before its publication date last week, a new, closely detailed biography of John Foster Dulles was embroiled in the kind of pundit-blown dust storm that recurrently swirls about the U.S. Secretary of State. Much of what is told in John Foster Dulles (Harper; $4.50), by John Robinson Beal (TIME'S diplomatic correspondent in Washington), had been told before, but two points in the book were enough to precipitate the storm. Reported Author Beal: ¶Dulles last year canceled the proposed $56 million loan to help Egypt's Dictator Nasser build the Aswan Dam because...