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Walter Lippmann (150 papers, circ. 10,000,000) is the Olympian . . . "no man writes with more skill and a better heart when dealing with democracy ten years and 10,000 miles away." But the onetime "brilliant spokesman of liberalism" has been "running neck and neck with general Republican opposition, calling upon the courts to liquidate the New Deal and upon the stars to view the general iniquity in Washington." Columnist Fisher finds Lippmann's "comment on world affairs comes from a background of study and close observance which scarcely any contemporary journalist can touch" . . . but three months before Pearl...
Columnist Fisher groups 54-year-old Pundit Lippmann with old (69) G.O.P. Spokesman Mark Sullivan (55 papers, circ. est. 5,000,000) and old (66) Roosevelt-baiting Frank Kent (87 papers, circ. 5,000,000) as having undergone "violent reversal of attitude at periods approximating their middle years and success." Of Sullivan, Fisher says: "The fact that none of the tragedies [he has predicted] ever came to pass . . . has in no way affected [his] status as prophet, analyst," keeper of the Old Guard faith. Of Kent: "A prosperous citizen [vice president of Baltimore's Sunpapers] . . . when [he] assails...
Walter Winchell (some 800 papers, circ. some 25,000,000) runs a Broadway-Miami-Washington-Reno-Hollywood gossiporium which "suggests a continuous vaudeville entertainment in progress on a rubberneck bus en route to a peepshow and yet it may be the most effective pro-American propaganda medium in the country. . . ." In suggesting that Walter Winchell is the No. 1 propagandist-ideologue for World War II, Columnist Fisher may well be right. But last week Congressman Martin Dies, investigator of un-American activities, was planning to put Mr. Winchell under the magnifying glass...
Drew Pearson (621 papers, circ. 18,000,000) is the most widely distributed Washington commentator, has been labeled generally as a New Dealer, occasionally as a trial balloon floater, and specifically by Franklin Roosevelt and Cordell Hull as a liar.* Columnist Fisher is impressed by slim, suave Andrew Russell Pearson's "many overwhelming news beats," but finds on the debit side: Japan would attack Siberia early in 1943; Willkie would take an Administration post; Stalin would visit the U.S.; Russia could not hold out a month (in 1941) against Germany. Frequently sued for libel, involved in many a classic...
Dorothy Thompson (120 papers, circ. 7,000,000) directs "her monitorial attention to the whole world, which she evidently regards as an obtuse and disorderly place which suffers largely because it won't listen to Dorothy Thompson." Author Fisher is overwhelmed by her epic sweep-"she has never been known to be in doubt about anything." But "in most domestic affairs she never struggled much past a state of mental disorder. In her attitude toward Roosevelt . . . she began with a mild approval of plans to relieve the depression but found herself unable to agree with any which were...