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...Eggleston, whom he'd met at a dinner for the Nieman Fellows. Art was one of them, Vag knew, and a pretty famous one. He remembered hearing about the "San Francisco Chronicle," which published a column by Eggleston about the West Coast labor movement. He'd heard that the columnist knew Bridges, and Murray, and Lewis, and that he'd been to the C.I.O. convention recently. Vag felt sure that, if anyone could tell him, this was the man who knew "the other side." So tonight Vag is going to listen to a talk by Arthur Eggleston at the Union...
...prevailing mood in Washington was gloom. Apprehensively the country read the Washington columnists, whose reports of U. S. defense preparations read last week like the opening chapters of so many ghost stories. "We are in a pause," gloomed Columnist Ray Clapper (Scripps-Howard). "Slump," wailed Columnist Dorothy Thompson (New York Herald Tribune), who printed reports that the President is in a "down" mood. Even Franklin Roosevelt's closest adherents questioned his two-week cruise; wondered how he dared leave. Washington seemed to be sinking back into the swamp whence it was reclaimed...
Said Poetaster Hearst, by way of apology: "It is often very warm in southern Spain. And sometimes the heat affects a traveler's head. It was in such a moment of aberration that [these] verses - largely imaginative - were written by your columnist...
...candidate for President ever took such a job afterwards. But Columnist Lawrence pointed out its advantage to Willkie and the party: 1) he would have a powerful voice in party leadership; 2) he could acquire closer familiarity with national affairs, bring efficiency and planning to the national headquarters; 3) party leadership developed in conferences could be effective inside as well as outside Congress, could prevent contradictions like those that made the Republican record on defense and foreign policy a handicap in the 1940 campaign. As a salaried executive ("It ought to pay a man as much as does the Presidency...
Latin-American newspapers do not encourage women reporters. But a Brazilian newspaper, Diario de Noticias of Rio de Janeiro, last fortnight broke with Latin tradition, hired a female columnist. Said proud Diario: "This admirable woman, whose fascinating personality does not vanish behind the radiance of her husband's great importance, is not only a fine companion for the President but has a keen and brilliant mind and a generous heart. ..." Name of the column: My Day, by Eleanor Roosevelt. Flown to Rio thrice a week, My Day appears in Diario in both English and Portuguese, runs seven days behind...