Word: column
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newsman; but not many outside his profession and the readers of the Tribune and Liberty knew a year and a half ago who Floyd Gibbons was. Then he went into radio broadcasting. Last week, famed Fastest Talker Floyd Gibbons returned to newspaper work as a circulation drawing-card. His column, "Floyd Gibbons Speaking?" began daily appearances in 42 newspapers served by famous Features Syndicate...
...column is much like a miniature edition of the 15-minute news summary, in machine-gun stream of syllables, which Reporter Gibbons gave as a daily radio broadcast for The Literary Digest last spring. In an effort to recapture the breathlessness, the staccato note, of the Gibbons chatter, the Evening World separates the paragraphs with drawn lightning-flashes...
...Spot. Those acquainted with the deeds of Edgar Wallace have ceased to be surprised at any news about that prodigiously prolific British fictioneer. In England his books sell as well as the Holy Bible, he has written 41 thriller-novels, eight thriller-plays, runs a daily column about racehorses, another about the theatre. Last year incredible Mr. Wallace visited two days in Chicago, part of which time he spent with the city's police force. It took him another two days to whip into shape a play about Chicago gangsters and the outcome is On The Spot. Under such circumstances...
...paper is a four page, four column journal which presents a very neat appearance. One of the outstanding features of this first issue is a tabloid comparison of the party platforms of the three parties in the coming election in Massachusetts, paign is given in outline form...
...Coolidge '15, candidate for Socialist Secretary of State in Massachusetts, who writes on "Socialism in the Colleges", and by H. D. Ursell, graduate of Cambridge and this year's holder of the Choate Memorial Fellowship, on "Unemployment Insurance in England and the United States", as well as a column to be conducted by Edward Hartshorne '33, who spent the summer traveling in Russia. Editorials and new articles will also be included...