Washington newshawk: "How much political news is sent abroad?"
OWI Director Elmer Davis: "I presume that you are alluding to the fourth-term talk. Well, that is a lot of hot air at this time. . . . It hasn't reached the news stage yet."
Elmer Davis was on the freight, and a slow one, at that, when he thus aired his views at his press conference last week. Term IV talk was past the news stage; the hot news upcoming was the next Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate.
Kansas City Star Correspondent Ted Alford wrote that...
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