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...Smearcast...
That word "smearcast" (Martin Dies v. Walter Winchell, TIME, April 3) is the best word to come out of 1944. My admiration for the person who coined it is unbounded. If you think that attitude is extravagant, please note that words have influenced history...
...American Activities, took to the air to call the columnist a "tool [of the] smearbund," proceeded to do some smearing himself. Under Blue Network rules. Winchell could make no fresh charges until Dies answered his old ones. Dies didn't. They met in the studio after the smearcast, grinned like happy pseudo-warriors. Winchell: "Let's get together and tell some more lies about each other." Dies: "I'd have to go some to get even." Prime Minister Churchill, General Eisenhower and Lieut. General Omar Bradley took part in a shooting match during a two-day inspection...
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