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...critical raves that greeted her prodigal return from Hollywood rang like a pressagent's dream of the perfect billboard. "Beautiful," sighed the Times's erudite Brooks Atkinson. "Captivating," cooed the Daily News's John Chapman. "Lovely," purred the World-Telegram and Sun's William Hawkins. Columnist Ward Morehouse urged all theatergoers to "hurry over to Henry Miller's and watch a lovely young actress at work...
...Scripps-Howard Washington News offered its columns to La Prensa's editors or to any South American journalist who wanted to state La Prensa's case-a vantage point for argument during the current conference of Foreign Ministers of the American republics (see HEMISPHERE) in Washington. Syndicated Columnist David Lawrence wanted U.N. members to withdraw ambassadors from Buenos Aires. But it was the Chicago Tribune which reminded the press of its own important power. Said the Trib: "All we can suggest toward the end of causing Perón to relent is to see that he continues...
...show a town meeting or a circus? Some observers thought they were seeing an awakened and outraged citizenry. But in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Columnist Ollie Crawford argued: "The Romans were right-there's no show like watching people thrown to the lions. " Manhattan radio station WNEW hired Psychologist Ernest Dichter to explain it all. He concluded that the hearings were supersoap opera: "The pure and wonderful hero was Kefauver, the 'Just Plain Bill' was righteous, moralistic Senator Tobey . . . As a psychologist, I wonder if it was a desire to feel superior that so fascinated the millions...
After 20 years of syndicated punditing, Columnist Walter Lippmann last week let readers in on a handy trick of his trade. "No one can have been writing for newspapers for a long time," he wrote, "without being fully aware of how much safer it is to prophesy disaster than to venture to express a hope. It is safe to be gloomy. If one prophesies disaster and it happens, one has been a true prophet. And if it does not happen, one is readily forgiven and may even suggest that but for the warning the disaster would have happened...
Miss Illsley, a columnist for the Radcliffe News, served on the staffs of the University of California Daily and the Los Angeles Times. Miss Davis, former Radcliffe Bureau Chief of the CRIMSON, has been a member of the Press Board for two years and has also been on the staff of the Indianapolis News...