Word: column
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Schmertz said newspapers allow a more varied discussion of the issues in their advertisements, syndicated column, freelance reports and letters to the editor...
After back-to-back losses to Ivy League powerhouses Princeton and Pennsylvania, the Harvard men's squash team got back into the win column last night with a convincing, if predictable 8-1 routing of MIT at Dupont gymnasium...
MARRIED. Sylvia Field Porter, 65, syndicated financial columnist and author; and James F. Fox, 61, New York City-based public relations executive; she for the third time, he for the first; in Manhattan. Porter, whose daily column appears in over 400 papers worldwide, once earned a compliment from a White House reader. "Why, goddammit," Lyndon Johnson thundered, "can't these economists talk straight like Sylvia...
Will Rogers saw it first. Said he in his daily column of May 2, 1930: "When Judgment Day comes, half of America will be on their way to some convention and the other half will be signing application blanks...
Most of these pieces appeared in the New York Times Book Review, for which the reviewer wrote a column, now regrettably defunct, called "The Good Word," or the New York Review of Books. Sheed's opinions seem right most of the time, but not so invariably right as to be insufferable. Too much Tightness shuts off debate and stifles the thought process. Sheed provides a good mixture of wisdom and nonsense, so that the reader finds himself saying, "Yeah, yeah, right," and then, "Now wait a minute!" He is properly appreciative of Edmund Wilson, sound on Walker Percy...