Word: column
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...readers of that gum-chewers' sheetlet, the New York Graphic, are gum-chewers. Some of them snuggle the pink-faced tabloid into Park Avenue homes, there to read it in polite seclusion. They have reason: the Graphic's gossip-purveying, scandal-scooping, staccato-styled Monday column, "Your Broadway and Mine...
...some time the writer of that column has been Walter Winchell, no ordinary scandal-scooper. Famed is he in theatre lobbies, speakeasies, night clubs. From one gossip-centre to another he travels to get column material. Alert, the Winchell ears hear all. Amiable, the Winchell disposition makes friends easily, elicits scandal-scraps. Then, at three and four in the morning, he goes back to his typewriter and two-fingers what he has learned, adding here and there the result of an imaginative mind...
...last week, Graphic-snugglers were surprised to read: "The Evening Graphic announces the appointment of Louis Sobol as dramatic editor and critic, effective at once. Mr. Sobol will also conduct the column known as 'Your Broadway and Mine.' " Discouraged, they turned to the Times, wherein appeared an advertisement announcing that starting Monday, June 10, Walter Winchell will conduct a column for a rival gum-chewers' sheetlet-the New York Daily Mirror. Many a Winchell reader does not believe all that he reads. Sometimes the Winchell prophecies are right; sometimes they are wrong. But Winchell worshippers have enlarged...
Newsman: Sure. There's a column...
...asking how much stress should be laid on the final examination in computing the grades for Government I, Professor Holcombe, whose letter appears in an adjoining column, raises a question of fundamental importance for all elementary courses at Harvard. Grades in advanced courses may usually without misgivings be determined on the basis of one or two examinations and possible a thesis. But the problem is not so easily solved for such large elementary courses as Government I, History I, or English...