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...though closer than expected, made it look as though the bill would have clear sailing. Far from silencing the opposition, however, it served to redouble it. Consequently, what had been merely a political tug-of-war last week became a nationwide commotion ranging from a series of articles by columnist Dorothy Thompson to the effect that if the bill passed "one man, once elected President, can rule this country with a camarilla'' to a scheduled town meeting at which the suburban citizenry of the stanchly Republican stronghold of New Canaan, Conn, proposed to record their opposition...
...press, the President was tired of reading that the White House had been bringing pressure to bear against a Congressional investigation of TVA. So incensed was he, in fact, by this charge that he wanted the reporters to put on the record his statement that any special writer or columnist who had suggested it had "made it up out of whole cloth...
Some weeks ago Gossip Walter Winchell announced in his syndicated column that Einstein was writing a book on physics "which you, you and you can understand." It is doubtful whether many of Columnist Winchell's "you's" will find The Evolution of Physics light reading. The Book-of-the-Month Club considered the manuscript at length, finally rejected it as a club selection, fearing an avalanche of returns from readers who would find it too difficult. Yet the U. S. publishers have turned out a first printing of 5,000 copies. Cambridge University Press, which is handling...
Some readers of syndicated columns, after sampling the scissors & knives of Dorothy Thompson, Westbrook Pegler, Heywood Broun, turn to Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day for healing and balm. To some other readers, the President's wife seems the Pollyanna of columnists. Even when, last fortnight, she reproved Dramatic Critics Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times and Richard Watts Jr. of the New York Herald Tribune for their blunt dismissal of Save Me the Waltz, a short-lived, Graustark-under-a-dictator romance, it was still in the spirit of loving the sunshine. Critics Atkinson and Watts, wrote...
Both Vruink and Lutz were hampered by playing in only part of the league tests this season. As a result some of the editors didn't see either of the two in action and some saw them only once. According to Wayne B. Barr, Columnist of the Pennsylvanian, Lutz rated a first team position...