Word: cols
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still regarded by his friends as "promising." His latest fling was in an old Churchillian field: journalism. United Feature Syndicate had signed him to a one-year contract, sold his column to 80 papers in the U.S. and abroad, told him Europe was his beat. His first col umns were windy pieces about Eire, and under anyone else's name would hardly have been printed. When they appeared, Randolph was in Moscow, trying to line up an interview with Molotov. In his room at Moscow's National Hotel, he picked up the telephone, asked in English...
...Waterfield is fresh out of col lege. He started being a football hero at Van Nuys (Calif.) High School, where he met a well-stacked, laughing-eyed girl named Jane Russell. At U.C.L.A. he soon became a standout - and a constant source of worry to his teammates, who feared that Howard Hughes's actress "find" was distracting Bob's mind from football. Jane notwithstanding (he married her in 1943), Bob was the star of the 1942 U.C.L.A...
...attribute the wartime show ing of Russian agriculture to Soviet planning or to the inherent efficiency of col lective farming. Candidly, he said that "patriotism - an outstanding rise in pa triotism" was what kept Russian food production from collapsing...
...Salt Lake City, the Crime Prevention Bureau reported that its col lection of toy pistols (for the amusement of lost children) had disappeared...
...newsmen scooped their col leagues last week with "exclusive" inter views with the Son of Heaven. To the Imperial Household building, which is in considerably better condition than the bomb-scarred Palace, went long-legged Frank Kluckhohn of the New York Times. Six hours later Hirohito saw bullet-headed Hugh Baillie, president of the United Press, who, like the U.P.'s biggest stock holder, Roy Howard, likes to turn legman himself once in a while...