Word: howe
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Quincy Howe is a cultured, loquacious, birdlike Bostonian with a famous father (Pulitzer Prize Biographer Mark Antony DeWolfe Howe), a shrewd editorial sense, a mercurial mind. For twelve years he applied it to foreign affairs for The Living Age; for the last five it has glided around the offices of Simon & Schuster. For years Editor Howe was the No. 1 sniffer-out of British influence and propaganda in the U. S. His England Expects Every American To Do His Duty (1937) was hailed and reprinted in the Anglophobe Hearst press; his Blood Is Cheaper Than Water (1939) glibly tracked...
...News and how to Understand it (Simon & Schuster; $2) is subheaded In spite of the newspapers, In spite of the magazines, In spite of the radio. A practitioner in two of these fields (he is news commentator for WQXR), Howe is critical of all three. Refreshingly fair and accurate (especially in comparison with muckraking books like George Seldes' Lords of the Press), Howe's book is an amusing, gossipy chat about the men and corporations that bring the news to America: their biases, their qualities, their wives. His opinions...
...millions of words of news Americans get. nine in ten are not facts but opinion. To illustrate, Howe takes a sunrise, sunset, moon and tide report of the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, presents it as it might have been written by A. P., U. P., I. N. S., Dorothy Thompson, Winchell, Lippmann, etc. Hugh Johnson version: "New Deal Janissaries are telling the world they have improved on Joshua who made the sun stand still. . . . Now I happen to know more about this subject of sun, moon and tides than I do about anything else. . . . If an outfit that...
Last week, when 60 U. S. matrons and spinsters gathered at New York's Westchester Country Club for their 17th annual tournament, it looked as if Mrs. Howe would make it three in a row. But in spite of her 800 golf prizes, Mrs. Howe failed to keep her head down, flubbed three successive shots on the seventh hole, wound up with a first-round 87, two strokes behind Beatrice Stevens Hammer Stevens of Greenwich, Conn...
Next day, while Mrs. Howe scored a matronly 88, young Mrs. Stevens, twice-married and a 51-year-old grandmother, chalked up 83 to win the tournament by seven strokes. Champion Stevens had won the Senior championship once before, but the name that appears most often on the big silver cup Mrs. Stevens took home is that of Mrs. Leila Du Bois, four times champion and five times runner-up since...