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Since the measure of a newspaper columnist's worth nowadays seems to be the amount of time he devotes to the radio, the old cavalryman's advent on the air was accepted by his friends as proof that he had journalistically arrived. Simultaneously United Feature proudly announced that it had sold him to his 49th paper, the Philadelphia Inquirer...
Three years ago the arch-Republican Philadelphia Inquirer would not have printed a column by General Johnson if he had been the last columnist on Earth. In fact, until the General's belligerent attitude toward publishers while NRAd-ministrator had been forgotten, United Feature salesmen did not have too much success selling his column in the newspaper offices they solicited. In the past 60 days, however, as the Johnson bombardment of the Administration has grown to Alcazar proportions, United Feature salesmen have been able to add 13 papers to the General's string. This does not remotely approach...
...brightest liberal lighthouse in U. S. journalism. With the death of the World in 1931 Lippmann seemed checked in midcareer. When he was offered and accepted a place in the columns of the arch-Republican Herald Tribune, which hired him not as an editor but as an independent columnist whose opinions the publisher disavowed, it was as much of a shock to Herald Tribune readers as to Lippmann's friends. Before long, however, the Herald Tribune'?, bosom ceased to quiver from the shock of taking in this potential viper and started to preen itself on owning the prize...
...brother of Boston Traveler's popular Columnist Neal O'Hara, Walter O'Hara is a quick-witted Irishman, onetime Rhode Island mill operator, who suddenly appeared on the State political scene when the Legislature legalized pari-mutuel horserace gambling in 1934. Promoter O'Hara quickly organized Narragansett Racing Association with the help of friends, bought 130 acres from an oldtime Woonsocket saloonkeeper for $150,000, built a track in seven weeks and began running profitable races before the paint was dry on the grandstand. Taking 62% of all bets made, besides gate receipts and concessions, Narragansett...
...columns. Last April, after two Nation writers opposed the Roosevelt court reorganization plan, Mr. Broun declared in its pages: "I'm getting a little sick of the Nation's policy of fair play, and everybody must be heard whether he has anything to say or not." And columnist and magazine had again disagreed in August on the advisability of the Guild's sponsoring issues so far afield as the cause of Leftist Spain without a national referendum...