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...riposte, Columnist Georges Ravon of the conservative Le Figaro raised his brows and drily observed: "It is very curious . . . that the American warmongers' bombs should be the only ones that react on our umbrellas. The peacemongers of the Little Father of the Peoples can experiment with their atomic weapons without L'Humanité noticing the slightest disturbance...
There is lethargy, dependence on government handouts, press conferences, tips and gossip. Too many stories are written on the formula of "fact-plus-hunch-plus-opinion," notably by the pundits and columnists. Says Columnist Doris Fleeson, the capital's top woman reporter: "There's too little reporting, too much thumb-sucking in this town." Many correspondents are not in Washington to report; they are there to give their papers prestige, run errands for the publisher and lobby for his pet ideas, or to make routine checks...
...week's end, New York Daily News Columnist John Crosson put his finger squarely on the main reasons for the leaks. Said he: "New York friends of Vice President Barkley . . . are turning a cold, hard gaze on current maneuverings of certain high Democratic strategists to dump the Vice President as Harry Truman's running mate ... So let's have an end to this sneaky attempt by political schemers to sell Alben short. He's solid-and still aging in the wood...
Married. Michael Lewis, 21, son of the late novelist Sinclair Lewis and Columnist Dorothy Thompson, recent graduate of London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art; and Bernadette Nanse, 21, French socialite; in Woodstock...
Died. Dr. Harry Watson Martin, 61, since 1937 medical director of 20th Century-Fox Studios, husband of famed Hollywood Gossip Columnist Louella O. ("Lolly") Parsons in one of the film colony's happiest marriages; of an undiagnosed ailment contracted while on South Pacific duty in World War II with the Army Medical Corps; in Hollywood...