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 add that his predictions had been flatly wrong:

April 16: "The next Secretary of Labor will be either Senator Kilgore or Jim McGranery, now Assistant Attorney General."

April 25: "Harley M. Kilgore is the man in the Senate most likely to succeed Frances Perkins as Secretary of Labor."

April 25: "Hugh A. Fulton, the lawyer who worked with President Truman when he was heading the Truman Committee, is persistently reported about to get the Attorney Generalship when Biddle resigns. . . ."

April 30: "Governor Herbert O'Conor of Maryland is mentioned for the Attorney Generalship."

May 14: "Senator Guy Gillette is slated to succeed Claude Wickard as Secretary of Agriculture."

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