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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Final Goad. The New York Post's self-styled Saloon Editor Earl Wilson, whose usual preoccupation is with movie stars' brassieres and "derrieres," interrupted Molotov's press conference to ask whether vodka was pronounced "wodka" and whether it could "be consumed . . . without fear of internal injury." This was the final goad to Scripps-Howard's Peter Edson, who promptly exploded in type...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: San Francisco Spectacle | 5/7/1945 | See Source »

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