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...Visiting Columnist Walter Lippmann had a novel solution: "Any one who comes here from Washington will . . . be convinced that the distance is too great, that communication is too difficult, and that the questions are often too peculiar to be dealt with by referring them back and forth. . . . There is needed in the Pacific Coast region not only unity of military command . . . but also a unity of civil authority . . . a governor general...
Under Editor MacLeish in OFF were other able men: Columnist (now Captain) Robert Kintner; Historian & Essayist Henry F. Pringle of Harper's and Collier's; former Washington Correspondent Ulric J. Bell, of the Louisville Courier-Journal; New York Times Book Reviewer Charles Poore; Columbia Broadcasting System's Vice President William B. Lewis; TIME'S Allen Grover, Chicago Daily Newsman Edgar Ansel Mowrer...
...Hounds. Some Congressmen were already baying on the trail of OFF. They had the help of Columnist Westbrook Pegler, a handy man with a stone, who now steadily threw rocks at OFF's Malcolm Cowley, an ex-New Republican. And one of the principal things that set the Congressmen baying was OFF's first publication, a grandiose 62-page, red-white-&-blue-printed Report to the Nation...
Dorothy Thompson and a buxom blonde Naziphile met on a sidewalk outside Manhattan's Café Royal, favorite downtown haunt of Jewish actors, writers, professionals. Inside, Columnist Thompson had been sitting with Austrian Refugee Economist Dr. Gustav Stolper. The anonymous blonde, laden with jewels and alcohol, had entered with an anonymous escort. "Heil Hitler!" barked the blonde presently. Nothing happened. Followed more heiling, loud comments on Jewish cooking. Followed the ejection of the blonde by the management. Followed Columnist Thompson...
Actors Hepburn and Tracy have a fine old time in Woman of the Year. They take turns playing straight for each other, act one superbly directed love scene, succeed in turning several batches of cinematic corn into passable moonshine. As a lady columnist, she is just right; as a working reporter, he is practically perfect. For once, strident Katharine Hepburn is properly subdued. When she met her leading man for the first time, before shooting began, she observed: "I'm afraid I am a little tall for you, Mr. Tracy." Said he: "Don't worry, Miss Hepburn...