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...haphazard, seemingly crazy raid by only a few bombers, blasting a number of private homes, killing many citizens with a direct hit on a shelter holding 120. Wags suggested that the Nazis put on the show for excitable, visiting Columnist Dorothy Thompson, who attended it from her fifth-floor windows in the Savoy Hotel (see p. 21). But it was a poor show and after it Columnist Thompson snorted: "It was . . . not nearly so noisy as a New York thunderstorm...
...concluded: the U.S. should lead the way toward mediating between Germany and Britain in the war. But to his question: "Do you believe that the United States should offer to mediate between England and Germany?" only 27.4% had answered "Yes." Conning all these pros & cons, owl-wise old (66) Columnist Mark Sullivan wrote: "The spirit of the American people, as expressed in polls, seems to be something like this: 'Do you favor entering the war?' A loud, ringing 'no.' 'Do you favor taking steps which would take us into the war?' A loud, ringing...
That snatch of a song had a college professor, a U.S. poet, numerous song collectors and Mississippi river folk scratching their heads last week. The lines had been sent to Bill Henry, columnist in the Los Angeles Times, by a friend who remembered hearing them many years ago in "Hell's Half Acre" in St. Louis. Henry printed the song, remarked its similarity to the current No. 1 sheet-music seller, the No. 2 ditty of the NBC and CBS networks, The Hut-Sut Song. This doubletalk, mock-Swedish "serenade" was written by Ted McMichael (of the singing "Merry...
...South African diamond merchant, Vanda began his career in the U.S. as copywriter for J. Walter Thompson, which never saw its way clear to use any of his copy. Later he did small-time press-agentry, served as saxophonist in a band, was a gossip columnist for Theatre Magazine, broke into radio as a theatrical commentator. In 1933 he joined CBS, was made West Coast program director in 1938. Vanda is married to the sister of Benay Venuta, lives in what he describes as a "synthetic estate" atop a hill in North Hollywood, now earns some $700 weekly from...
Throughout all journalism's history. Jimmy is the only janitor ever to become a columnist in a single day. In the spring of 1921, broke, he answered a News want ad for a copy boy who would sweep out on Sundays. On his first Sunday at work, Phil Payne, then city editor, asked him who he was, recognized his name as a famed footballer, gave him the Inquiring Fotographer assignment. The column was a transplanted Chicago Tribune feature, but it had always been assigned more or less at random to a staff writer accompanied by a cameraman, and Jimmy...