Word: column
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recession coverage ... 1) TIME says "The Journal suppressed the news of a layoff of 2,000 Lockheed workers last fall until it could report that the factory had found other jobs for some of them." Lockheed announced the layoff August 15. We printed it August 15, under a three-column headline. We printed it again August 30. It was four months later . . . that we carried our first story on the factory finding other jobs for them. 2) TIME says the Journal, until last week, "even banned the word recession from the paper." The most cursory check shows we were calling...
...back home over typewriters and copy desk rim. Thus it was with a small apologetic note about their "pretty good life" that the New York Herald Tribune's Red Smith reported a wave of indignation among his colleagues last week. New York sportswriters, wrote Smith in his syndicated column, are getting the Bums' rush from their longtime friends and hosts, the Los Angeles Dodgers, last year the Dodgers of Brooklyn...
...Prize in Letters. Last week Reporter White quit the Times after 13 years to fill a rare opening in the ranks of Washington pundits. Taking over from Thomas L. Stokes, whose career has been indefinitely interrupted by serious illness (TIME, March 24), White will write a thrice-weekly political column starting next month. He will also turn out a monthly Washington column for Harper's Magazine...
Reporter White's column for United Feature Syndicate will combine, says he, "some commentary, considerable news analysis and, now and then, some straight reporting." His internationalist, Jeffersonian political philosophy puts him only somewhat to the right of Liberal Tom Stokes's views. Yet Texas-born Bill White, who labels himself an "independent," also feels an affinity for the Senate's dominant Southern conservatives, many of whom, e.g., House Speaker Sam Rayburn, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, he has known since he went to Washington in 1933 to cover Texas affairs for the Associated Press...
...good career for the man who's really disinterested, whose aim is to explain facts, whose temperament is detached." One of the first dailies to start Columnist White on his new career last week was the conservative Washington Star (circ. 254,992), which signed up for his column as soon as it was offered...