The Press: Cabinet Maker

All Broadway columnists may be thankful for the public's short memory—but none more so than the New York Daily News's dandyish Danton Walker. Either not knowing or not caring how often his "predictions" go sour, 17 U.S. newspapers (circ. 9,000,000) now run his daily offerings.

Like his competitors, Columnist Walker has in recent years gone onwards & upwards from bedroom tattle to palace prattle. Last week, when President Truman named three new Cabinet members (see U.S. AT WAR), Columnist Walker promptly reminded his readers that he (like everyone else) had predicted that there would be some Cabinet changes. He neglected to...

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