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Former President Truman, on a filmed television program with Columnist Drew Pearson last week, gave his version of the famed "red herring" crack about congressional spy hunts in 1948. Said Harry Truman: "The facts of the case are that, in a press conference one morning, some young man . . . asked me if the action of the House Un-American Activities Committee was not in the form of a red herring to cover up what the Republican Administration in the 80th Congress had not done, and I said it might...
...competitors, Hearst's Herald & Express and the ailing Daily News. In editorials and news stories, all three papers constantly fire away (TIME, Nov. 24, 1952 et seq.) at one another. For example, in the middle of the Mirror's liquor-license series, Newsmen discovered that Mirror Movie Columnist Florabel Muir had herself sold a license in just the way Mirror had said was "sizzling and sensational." Columnist Muir promptly resigned (TIME...
...Cairo's daily Al Misr, Columnist Mamoud Abdel Moneim deplored the silly way Egyptian women have been acting ever since Cinemactor Robert Taylor hit town. Moaned Mamoud: "They have found excuses to knock at his door . . . reserve restaurant tables next to his . . . They have been observed making provocative gestures with cigarettes drooping from their lips . . . Will [Robert Taylor] think there are only flighty women in Egypt? Are there no men to keep them in check...
Chicago's Educational Television Association, scheduled to go on the air over Channel 11, appealed for a distinctive set of call letters. Some 200 enthusiasts last week responded with education-slanted suggestions ranging from WPHD and WIQ to WTET ("Welcome to Educational Television"). Columnist Larry Wolters, in the Chicago Tribune, regretfully noted that several likely candidates were already in use: KNOW, WHO, WHAT, and WABC. Wolters suggested...
...Eddie Cantor Story (Warner). One day in 1951, oldtime Comedian Eddie Cantor asked Hollywood Columnist Sidney Skolsky, whose 1946 production of The Jolson Story grossed $12 million and put oldtime Mammy Singer Jolson back on top of the entertainment world, if he could not do the same for Cantor...