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...finds no difficulty in assigning a place to the most baffling tangle of cross-purposes.† The faculty enables him to read a three-paragraph dispatch about some remote and complicated affairs and come to an instant decision on what must be done. . . . Politically, Grafton [onetime office mate of Columnist Fisher] has been a supporter of the New Deal, although he grows restless because it hasn't accomplished as much as he can do any afternoon in half an hour at the typewriter." Columnist Fisher also notes that 36-year-old Grafton "has been critical of all the larger...
David Lawrence (183 papers, circ. 7,000,000) "feels light was extinguished with Woodrow Wilson's death. . . . After a short and unsatisfactory flirtation with the New Deal," he settled into dry, persistent criticism, but "has approved the Administration's foreign policy more often than not." Columnist Fisher might well have added: friend of Congress, foe of labor...
...Columnist Fisher is warm in praise of warm-hearted Ernie Pyle (TIME, May 31) and the late Raymond Clapper (TIME...
...Author-Columnist Fisher sums up: "I'm against columnists. I can sit with a friend and talk things over and he might say I'm full of hop and maybe I am. But when I write something in the paper hundreds of readers take it seriously. They give it disproportionate weight...
...Last week Columnist Pearson printed a list of his stories which had been denied, "but turned out true." Among them: his beats on the General Patton soldier-slapping (TIME, Dec. 6), the Navy's Elk Hills oil deal (TIME, July 5). † He also has felt Presidential censure, on his "moronic little king" broadcast...