The columnist's stock in trade is falsification and vilification. He is journalism's Public Enemy No. 1, and if the American press is to improve itself, it must get rid of him. Harold Le Clair Ickes, April 11, 1939.
Last week, Harold Ickes, who has done his share of vilification, became a columnist.
For one furious fortnight, Ickes played hard to get. The line formed at the left, with Marshall Field's Chicago Sun. Field opened bidding at $500 a week; Ickes didn't even widen a nostril. Bidding soared to $900 a week, to $1,000.
Then Ickes summoned the winner, 37-year-old President Robert M. Hall...
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