Word: adding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...belongs to the family of the ex-New York Stock Exchange president's brother's wife. ∙∙ Dizzy Dean began a new job as sports announcer for a St. Louis radio station. ∙∙ Dale Carnegie (How to Win Friends, etc.) bobbed up in a cigaret ad, telling "How to Get Up Easily in the Morning." He advised naps, plenty of sleep, and getting up fast...
Throughout all journalism's history. Jimmy is the only janitor ever to become a columnist in a single day. In the spring of 1921, broke, he answered a News want ad for a copy boy who would sweep out on Sundays. On his first Sunday at work, Phil Payne, then city editor, asked him who he was, recognized his name as a famed footballer, gave him the Inquiring Fotographer assignment. The column was a transplanted Chicago Tribune feature, but it had always been assigned more or less at random to a staff writer accompanied by a cameraman, and Jimmy...
...replacement for billowing Mary Margaret, Early Bird Godfrey will provide a drastic change of fare. His voice is wheezy, his manner tough, and he is addicted to spoofing his sponsors. During his rambling ad lib discussions on life, love, flying or coal mining, he frequently salutes his supporters with such outbursts as: "Well, well, Zlotnick the Furrier. Go down and kick old Zlotnick in the shins. Kick him once...
Soon booming away with ad lib gags, Broadcaster Godfrey was frightened in 1934 when NBC, with a lot of ballyhoo, announced a rival morning show. He decided to broadcast all night before his rival took to the air, on the theory that people would tune in on him in the morning just to see if he were still there. They...
Hearst's King Features Syndicate was hard at work on a glowing ad for Leonard Lyons, whose column it had sold to 25 papers (circulation: 4,000,000). The ad: 1) an ebullient article on Lyons by William Saroyan ("one of the few columns of our time which has both form and style"); 2) a letter from New York University's English Department saying that Lyons' column is recommended reading in the Advanced Writing Class; 3) a statement by Carl Sandburg (via Saroyan): "Imagine how much richer American history would have been, had there been a Leonard...