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...time, too, his hearers warmed. He lashed at Tom Dewey, at those who think it "clever to be silent, that it is smart poli tics to manipulate the nomination." In Ripon, birthplace of the Republican party, he put the argument on a scholarly plane, in a speech acclaimed by Columnist Marquis Childs as "one of the vital docu ments in our political history. . . . Our grandchildren may be reading it in history books 50 years from...
...General Sir Claude Auchin-leck told the Indian Parliament that the Japs were attacking in considerable strength. Same day Admiral Mountbatten said the attackers were only "raiding parties." Pundits everywhere were stumped. Said one U.S. radio commentator: "This looks serious." A columnist: "Professional military men . . . are not fretting over some gains in those border mountains." Republican Congresswoman Jessie Sumner (who wants to abandon the war in Europe, make MacArthur supreme anti-Japanese commander) said "military authorities" had told her that many U.S. troops had no guns to fight the Japs at Imphal (where there are no U.S. troops...
Martin Dies, redheaded, brassbound Congressman from Texas, vexed by Walter Winchell's sour comments on the "unAmerican activities" of Dies's Committee on Un-American Activities, took to the air to call the columnist a "tool [of the] smearbund," proceeded to do some smearing himself. Under Blue Network rules. Winchell could make no fresh charges until Dies answered his old ones. Dies didn't. They met in the studio after the smearcast, grinned like happy pseudo-warriors. Winchell: "Let's get together and tell some more lies about each other." Dies: "I'd have...
...brash Joseph Coughlin, 49, 204 lb., got to be a small-talk columnist a few years before Walter Winchell. At 24, Roundy was pushing a lawnmower in Madison's Brittingham Park (he had quit school in the fifth grade, had been a dynamite hauler, telephone repairer, sledge-hammerer, semi-pro baseball pitcher). He started penciling names and items he heard around the park's tennis courts and bathing beach, sold them as a weekly sports column to the Capital Times. The technique and Roundy's idiom have not changed a bit in 25 years. The State Journal...
Fresh-as-a-breeze Annabella herself, according to Columnist Leonard Lyons, sent Rascoe a note saying: "Sorry I sickened you," and enclosing a bottle of castor...