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Devoted Presidents. In 1935 he gave up the title of sports editor to concentrate on the column "This Morning," which he had been writing for seven years. Its devoted readership has included every U.S. President since Calvin Coolidge. Dwight Eisenhower, who on occasion boasted that he never read the liberal-leaning Washington Post, admitted that he always read the Post's Povich. The brothers Kennedy cull Povich columns for anecdotes useful on the sports-conscious New Frontier...
...question the superiority of the Isley Brothers, but the relative merits of Shout and Twist and Shout is a moot point. We shall leave it to our discerning readership to decide
...days, reporters are still appointed for life; Editor Lazar Fogelman, who has been with the paper since 1927, is 71; Business Manager Adolph Held is 77; Literary Critic Harry Rogoff is 80. In a period of instant cookery, the Forward instructs its readership on the fermentation of wine. Space is still reserved for humor of a high Jewish flavor: "Sam: There is nothing better than to lie in bed in the morning and ring for a servant. Jonah: But you have no servant. Sam: But a bell...
...wish to carry this too far. Bowie relates some valuable history and makes a good many useful proposals; Zeckhauser gives a really impressive (despite its prose) summary of trade issues between the U.S. and Europe, difficult to do for a lay readership; and Nitze is after all the Horse's Mouth. Besides, Hoffmannesque detachment would probably drive them all mad, or, at best, prevent them from doing their jobs...
...Communist publications-which range in format from Political Affairs, a sort of Soviet Reader's Digest, to Glos Ludowy (Voice of the Masses), a weekly distributed to 3,000 left-leaning Poles in Detroit. Even if their circulation claims are accepted as genuine, as they cannot be, total readership falls short of 70,000, much of that duplicated. About the only circulation that the Worker can really count on steadily is in official Washington. More than 150 copies are studied by Government agencies, looking for zigs and zags in the Soviet line...