Word: column
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...campaign for the presidency to run for Johnny Carson's job, and the Ratt of Phynkia, who declares peace on the neighboring Republic of Mbonga to win U.S. foreign aid, then calls it off when he learns he would have to take the aid in weapons. "Writing a column beats honest work," says Hoppe. "It leaves the mornings free for other projects, such as writing rare books. In my case, the books are extremely rare...
...other member is Gerald Nachman, 41, a former feature writer for the New York News, who began a humor column for the paper in 1973. Since then he has proposed establishment of a home for wed mothers and called for an Anti-Turkey Roll League to slow the advance of that luncheon meat. Like Baker, Nachman has begun to avoid politics. "It doesn't touch people's lives like dealing with the phone company does," he explains. "In the real world, people go for weeks without thinking of Jimmy Carter. As a humor columnist, I wish there were...
...Robert Yoakum of Lakeville, Conn., who writes one of the nation's few self-syndicated columns of any kind (he sends it directly to his 80 clients, thereby avoiding a syndicate's customary fee of 50%) and has so far been unsuccessful in his quest for academy membership. Yoakum, 57, in one column described how the Indians tried to reclaim Manhattan from Mayor Beame, who was only too eager to give it back, and in another, after wincing at the mistakes in a lately deceased friend's obituary, imagined how his own would be botched: "LAKEVILLE, CONN...
...Lewis Grizzard, 32, sports editor of the Chicago Sun-Times before he began his column at the Atlanta Constitution two years ago. Since then Grizzard has written lightly about such matters as tennis etiquette ("Never wear hats advertising farm or earth-moving equipment or T shirts that say 'Let's boogie' "), advice to riders of subways ("Swallow your wallet before entering the train"), and his town's present appearance ("Atlanta looks like what Sherman would have left if he had been carrying bulldozers and jack-hammers"). Grizzard will begin syndication to half a dozen...
...Diane White, 35, of the Boston Globe, who can count Baker among her fans. White has been writing a column of gentle, occasionally self-mocking humor since...