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...Washington last week the curtain rang down on a Sunday Meet the Press television show featuring the Republican vice presidential nominee, California's Senator Richard Nixon. After the show, Columnist Peter Edson, an old Washington hand who writes a column for the Newspaper Enterprise Association, approached Nixon. There had been a story "kicking around" ever since the Chicago convention, said Edson, to the effect that Nixon was getting financial assistance from a special fund set up by a group of wealthy Californians. Well, Nixon replied, the truth wasn't quite that way, but Edson could...
Each clutching a box lunch (bread, olives, cheese, fruit) provided in haste by the American Friends of the Middle East (organized by. U.S. Columnist Dorothy Thompson), the hajjis were hustled aboard the big planes, 50 to a flight. All day long the transports shuttled back & forth to Jidda. One old man, deaf and blind at 85, was led aboard a plane by his son. "This is help sent by Allah," the son told the U.S. pilot. "We are linked together today by love and faith." Another passenger on the magic carpet provided by the U.S. was irascible old Mullah Kashani...
...Columnist Drew Pearson has been gunning for Florida's Governor Fuller Warren. Pearson had urged the Florida legislature to impeach Warren on the ground that his campaign had been heavily financed by gamblers (TIME, July 16, 1951). Last week, on vacation, Pearson gave Warren the use of his column for an uncensored counterattack. Wrote Guest Columnist Warren...
Typo. In Philadelphia, when Inquirer Columnist Frank Brookhouser reported that Hubert B. Wolfeschlegelsteinhasenbergerdorff had registered to vote in the November elections, Hubert wrote in indignantly to say that a "u" had been left out: his name was Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff...
Died. Mark Sullivan, 77, author (Our Times), onetime (1914-17) editor of Collier's, and political columnist (syndicated, at his peak, in close to 150 newspapers); of a heart attack; in West Chester, Pa. (see PRESS...