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...Northcliffe and the world's first great successful tabloid, is no small game. It has over 2,000,000 circulation and is the most popular paper with British servicemen. It is neither pacifist nor defeatist, but it has unmercifully ribbed the blunders of the British war effort. Its Columnist Cassandra,* a bespectacled, vitriolic Irish hefty named William Connor, has furnished most of the ammunition...
...longer a trump. The submarines that smacked shells at the refineries of Aruba and California were probing for vital or gans, for these refineries produce high-octane aviation gasoline, of which the hemisphere has none too much. Grumped the New York Herald Tribune's old Columnist Mark Sullivan: "It is by far the greatest problem of transportation and supply -what experts call 'logistics' -ever faced by any nation...
With such sultry passages did the onetime French gossip columnist, Magda Fontanges, reveal the story of her passion for Italy's aging (58) Mussolini. Last week, two years later, she would scarcely have recognized her onetime lover.* In his private study at the Palazzo Venezia, Mussolini no longer entertains visitors. In deep gloom he sits alone, reading Dante and Virgil, while his people faint on the streets from hunger...
Career woman marries family man, sees the light, and patches up: that's a skeleton of a plot we know so well. But it's doctored up so that the career woman is Tess Hardy, a diplomat's daughter turned political columnist (sort of a combo of Dorothy Thompson and Mrs. Roosevelt all rolled into the frame of La Hepburn), and the family man is sports writer Sam Craig (better known as Spencer Tracy on M.G.M.'s payroll). Up until their wedding night, the picture hits all the heights of humor and contrast you could ask for. His friends...
...columnist's finger was a mess. But she had the last word. She re-entered the Café Royal, her finger dripping. "Is there a doctor in the house?" she inquired. "I think I have hydrophobia...