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...poet with a substantial Catholic following is Rev. Leonard Feeney, 39, author of Fish on Friday, Riddle and Reverie, Boundaries. Dark, wiry Father Feeney taught English at Boston College from the time of his ordination nine years ago until he lately joined the Jesuit weekly, America, as columnist. As a guest preacher, he mounted the pulpit of Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral the Sunday before Christmas and, conscious of the superb sounding-board which that great fane afforded him, sermonized on a subject which he had half-whimsically, half-seriously pondered. Said Father Feeney...
...career which thus quietly closed, while not the most distinguished, was in many ways the most remarkable ever achieved by a writer for the U. S. Press. In annual salary ($260,000), and in readers reached (an estimated 30,000,000 a day), Arthur Brisbane far outstripped any other columnist. No less than 1,200 weekly papers carried his "This Week" contribution. Some 200 dailies beside the Hearstpapers ran "Today." As editor of the Hearst tabloid New York Daily Mirror, Mr. Brisbane turned out eight columns of special editorials a week. And every week in the Sunday Hearstpapers, Pundit Brisbane...
...That chipper little Irish columnist, Edward Arthur Donald St. George Hamilton Chichester, Marquess of Donegall continued silent in print about the King & Mrs. Simpson but complained in private of the service he is getting from a Milwaukee clipping bureau. It had already littered his house and office with 20,000 different clippings about the King & Mrs. Simpson last week when he canceled his order by cable. Next day the postman brought 6,000 more clippings and Lord Donegall deplored what his curiosity was going to cost...
...columnist who knew the answer to this was the New York World-Telegram's sharp Westbrook Pegler. "They do have their laws in England," he wrote, "but if a story is big enough an English paper can go ahead and print it-and get away with it, as the late Lord Northcliffe proved in his historic expose of the shell shortage in the early days of the World War. Under the Defense of the Realm Act, Northcliffe could have been locked up in the Tower and hanged...
This week the Paramount and Fenway offer entertainment of the pick-him-up-and-knock-him-down variety. As an antidote to the adventures of a wise-cracking radio columnist is shown a grand, old mother and son saga which is guaranteed to jerk a tear every foot...