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Smith's columns average 900 words and they are, with almost no exceptions, excellent. No sports columnist is more literate, none has the great perception and the ability that Smith has to make things perfectly clear with just the right word or phrase. The cliche--bane of every sportswriter--is a rare thing indeed in "Views of Sport," because its author is possessed with the genius of describing what he sees with brand new ideas that register every time...
Stanley Woodward, former Tribune sports editor who brought Smith to New York from the Philadelphia Record, finds the 44-year-old columnist's sole flaw stems form unalterable belief that no wrong can be done by Notre Dame, his alma mater. There is certainly little to criticize about Smiths' writing; he has his favorite expressions, but he is always fresh...
...Columnist Westbrook Pegler predicted that the present literary scene "might fairly be labeled by critics in the future, the golden age of garbage." Anyway, said Pegler, who used to be a good reporter himself, and careful of his facts, "fiction is a cowardly medium. The fictioneer needn't defend his position or accept the responsibility for the harm he does...
...boost. It was put out over the air last week by ABC's Henry J. Taylor and ("for what it's worth") by Mutual's Fulton Lewis Jr.; it was the subject of a documentary, neither pro nor con, by CBS's Edward R. Murrow. Columnist Robert Ruark declared that "I believe . . ." Henry Holt announced a "serious" book on flying saucers by Variety's Columnist Frank Scully. The Herald Trib, pooh-poohing the U.S. News article, concluded: "And yet-And yet there is something puzzling about the business...
...column article on the late Professor Francis O. Matthiessen by Boston Herald columnist Bill Cunningham has led to a flurry of editorial rebuttals in that paper over the last week. The article appeared last Monday, the day of Matthiessen's funeral, and referred to his suicide as "a confession of moral cowardice" and the "ne plus ultra of dramatizing oneself to the last possible fraction of a second...