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Washington columnist Joseph W. Alsop '32 led the five alumni who joined the Board of Overseers at the June Commencement. The Overseers, elected by graduate vote, are the supreme governing board of the University...
...during the visit the papers sought to out-adjective one another in describing MacArthur. He was "America's greatest soldier-statesman," and "like some sequoia, calm and proudly decked." Herald Columnist Bill Cunningham wrote that the general and his wife were "fresh as flowers in a florist's refrigerator" and noted, "If every wife were as pretty, as trim and as charming as Mrs. MacArthur, despite Corregidor, Australia, Japan, etc., they wouldn't have to resort to dreaming...
After meeting Spain's First Lady, Hearst Columnist Cobina Wright noted her impressions of Señora Carmen Polo de Franco: "In her lack of affectation, she reminded me much of our own Mrs. Truman. I told her as much and she replied that this was a great compliment . . . She told me something of her household routine. 'Every night after dinner, if there is no official function, the Generalissimo and I sit quietly at home . . . My husband does not smoke or drink, except for an occasional glass of wine with dinner. Then, too, every night there...
...representatives of Russia's Tass news agency make a great show of acting like reporters. But last week such members of the American Society of Newspaper Editors as Columnist David Lawrence and Scripps-Howard Editor Walker Stone thought it was time for a showdown on the question: Are Tassmen in the U.S. bona fide reporters or simply Russian agents gathering intelligence material for Russia's vast espionage system...
What's My Line? comes in the standard half-hour size, equipped with a standard panel of four: Columnist Dorothy Kilgallen, Actress Arlene Francis, Funnyman Hal Block and a guest. By asking questions that can only be answered with a yes or no, the panelists try to discover the business occupations (which have already been flashed to the TV audience) of the lady wrestlers, tree surgeons, wig-makers, house detectives, sword swallowers, etc. who appear as challengers. Each "no" answer wins $5 for the challenger; if he can answer no ten times he gets credit for defeating the panel...