Word: column
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...artists and writers to break into the game. Field Syndicate examines about 2,000 new comic strips a year, but adopts only one of them every two or three years. Some budding Buchwalds and Trudeaus have tried to syndicate themselves. Former Buchwald Partner Robert Yoakum wrote his own humor column for the Los Angeles Times Syndicate from 1972 to 1975; since then he has successfully sold it on his own-to twice as many newspapers. But few would-be Yoakums can afford the start-up costs that technology now demands; a major syndicate transmits a feature instantaneously via wire...
...cartoonist who next week will launch with the Trib-News syndicate a comic strip about a bird who edits a newspaper; New York News Funnyman Gerald Nachman (TIME, Aug. 23,1976); and, most recently, Jack Germond and Jules Witcover, a pair of Washington veterans whose six-month-old investigative column promises to match Jack Anderson scoop for scoop...
...fall at Brown University, Bread Loaf was a chance to meet others like herself who "feel passionate about their writing." Then there was Dr. Theodore Badger, 77, a ruddy-faced professor emeritus at the Harvard Medical School, who began his writing career at the age of 70 with a column in Medical Dimensions magazine. Said he: "I just wanted to come and steep myself in the intellectual atmosphere...
...Marines, they argue, underes timated the difficulties of flying a plane that rises and descends on a hot shim mering column of air blasted from its own nozzles, which the pilot must swivel horizontally for ordinary flight. One reason why not just any eager young pilot should fly a Harrier, says British Air Commodore Paddy Hines, is that it must often fly at be tween 250 and 500 ft. - an exercise demanding "high concentration and a very hard work load from its pilots." Two-thirds of the R.A.F. Harrier pilots had at least 1,000 flying hours on other aircraft...
...Ogden. "This means that officials you deal with now are seeing information they never received under Kissinger. In those days, many officials resorted to asking reporters what they had heard from Kissinger." Not that this particular question has gone out of style-as shown in Hugh Sidey's column on the former Secretary of State, who is in demand by foreign statesmen, not to mention reporters...