Word: column
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor Lloyd C. Stark, handsome, 53-year-old Democrat of military background and bearing, famed for the apples ("Stark's Delicious") which his father raised before him. For alert Governor Stark a Presidential trial balloon promptly went up last week in the famed "Washington Merry-Go-Round" (syndicated column by Drew Pearson & Robert S. Allen...
...attack of typhoid) is superadded to Eleanor Roosevelt's other capacities. She is out of bed at dawn's crack, doing setting-up exercises, swimming, or riding her old mare Dot. She eats like an ostrich: anything, everything. After breakfast she answers mail, dictates her column, which has not once been tardy through fault of hers. A somewhat shrill yet mellow chortle is the tune of her whole day. (She has been taking voice lessons to improve on the radio...
...newspaper dogma that reporters and desk men are underpaid, that the only way to make money is to get yourself a column and be a trained seal. Last week's Congressional report on salaries of $15,000 and over in 1937 showed ambitious cubs how much fish the big trained seals...
...childhood as a New Haven Baptist preacher's son to the latest Yale football team-a personal history whose like will probably not be lived again in the U. S. A giant, discursive volume, it reprints copiously from Billy Phelps's books and "As I Like It" column in Scribner's, contains random commentaries on everything from Browning to blowing smoke rings. Its main bulk is given over to his many letters from famed writers, to his reminiscences of 41 years as English professor at Yale. (He estimates that he has taught almost 17,000 students...
...books ("as depressing as soggy porridge"). His own big book runs to 986 pages, weighs 2⅝ Ib. Now 74, white-haired, deeply tanned, still vigorous, though saddened by the recent death of his wife, William Lyon Phelps is retired from Yale and Scribner's, contributes a column to the Rotarian, picks an annual list of "best books," writes few book reviews. But his influence is by no means extinct. Still one of the most popular of lecturers, he estimates "I'll probably average a talk a day over the next year." These include the ten or twelve...