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...citizenship necessary to appear on Miss Donnell's Government-sponsored I'm An American show, she persuaded him to go on for WOL, wrote a script for the occasion. Neither WOL nor MBS, its network, gave any publicity to the Valtin program. But long-nosed Manhattan Columnist Leonard Lyons sniffed out the news. Forthwith Washington began to stir.But reporters did not spot Valtin before the show and they did not find him afterward. While they waited outside Manager Dolph's penthouse apartment, intending to trail him to the broadcast, Valtin was ushered in by a back door...
...teacher meetings. He found people everywhere, he says, talking about Rugg. Professor Rugg reports off-the-record tete-a-tetes with his critics (whom he usually managed to mollify), names his chief foes - New York State Economic Council's Merwin K. Hart, Elizabeth Dilling (The Red Network), Hearst Columnist B. C. Forbes, American Legionnaire 0. K. Armstrong, Journalist George E. Sokolsky. He quotes Hart: "If you find any organization containing the word 'democracy,' it is probably . . . affiliated with the Communist Party." More intriguing than the textbook battle is Professor Rugg's account of the rise...
When somebody sells a columnist a "pup" -a story based on distorted facts, half-truths, or inventions-the writer can follow one of three courses. He can hunt desperately for more facts with which to prop up the original lie; he can say nothing more about it and rely on his readers to forget the blunder; or he can frankly admit his mistake and correct the injustice...
Perched in his San Simeon splendor, Mr. Hearst was supposed to be hopping mad. This young Orson Welles had made for RKO an insulting movie about his life called Citizen Kane. Led by his official ministress to the movie capital, Columnist Lolly Parsons, many a Hearst favor-seeker sent word to The Chief that they could fix everything. Soon the machinery of Hollywood pressure began to throttle Citizen Kane...
...begun. But no release was set by R. K. O. for the picture to be shown to the public, and it seemed very likely that none would ever be. Old Mr. William Randolph Hearst, who had only heard reports of the picture through his cinematic eyes, ears and tongue, Columnist Louella Parsons, thought the life of Kane was too close a parallel to the life of Hearst...