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Said Wendell Willkie, as he left the White House: "That's a proposal out of the dark ages. It would set the cause of emancipation of women back 500 years." Wrote scholarly Columnist Arthur Krock in the New York Times: "It puts a premium on divorce, celibacy, a lower birth rate and a mercenary attitude toward the estate of marriage." Wrote 76-year-old Arthur Graham Glasgow, noted gas technologist, in a letter to the New York Times: "Such discrimination is immoral as well as unmoral, for it allots a premium ... to living...
Russia's politically naïve many and politically cynical few may have swallowed this without even a gulp of tea, but outside of Russia it did not go down so well. Croaked the London Daily Mirror's caustic Columnist Cassandra: "Come off it, you gnarled old humbug! If ever a man picked up the starting gun and fired it to throw the world into war, that man was Comrade J. Stalin. . . . We can do without this hypocritical bilge, Comrade...
...their .shortwave propaganda broadcasts, the British press bustled. Front-paged the London Daily Mirror: "Wodehouse . . . lived luxuriously here because Britain laughed with him, but when the laughter was out of his country's heart, Wodehouse was not ready to share her sufferings. ..." Commented the Daily Express' subacid Columnist Paul Holt: "[Wodehouse is] one of the best loved Englishmen alive, [but] he is now using quite a short spoon to sup with the devil. . . . Life in hell is good to live, I guess, if you are Mister Lucifer's personal guest...
...strategy, besides containing a good share of first-rate newspapermen: Detroit's 36-year-old Milton Murray (Detroit Times assistant city editor) ; San Francisco's Sam Eubanks; Washington's Bill Rodgers; Twin Cities' Kenneth Grouse (Pioneer Press telegraph editor) ; Memphis' Harry Martin (Commercial Appeal columnist...
...vaudeville actor who died of acute alcoholism while suing Lyons for calling him a heavy drinker-Lyons admits getting about 60% of his gossip from nightclubs, the rest from outside sources. Considering the number of non-Broadway anecdotes in his column, the nightclub percentage seems high. But Columnist Lyons points out that a lot of people stop at nightclubs: he met Mrs. Roosevelt in one, Alfred Landon in another, Soviet Ambassador Oumansky in the Stork Club...