Word: columne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During the years that Drew Pearson's syndicated column "Washington Merry-Go-Round ran in the Fairbanks, Alaska, News-Miner, Pearson's most constant detractor was C.W. (for Charles Willis) Snedden-who happens to be the News-Miner's Publisher. It seemed to Snedden that the columnist never got anything right about Alaska, not even the cost of a gallon of gas in Fairbanks, which Pearson quoted at $1 (actual price at the time: 51? to 54?). Finally Snedden could stand no more. "The garbage man of the fourth estate " his paper sneered in an editorial...
...spin. But his eyes are bright, 16 of his teeth are his own, and his arteries are no harder than those of a man of 45. All told, Brady makes a lively exhibit for the efficacy of his own advice, which he has dispensed daily through his syndicated column " Personal Health Service," for the past 50 years...
...solid dose of oldfangled, no-nonsense medical advice. He is against TV patent-medicine commercials, toothpaste (he uses soap and a birch toothpick), cigarettes, alcohol and hypochondria. "What is my blood pressure advice?" he once asked his readers, and capitalized his answer "NEVER MIND YOUR BLOOD PRESSURE." In a column on the benefits of exercise, he scolded sloths: "Don't just sit on your ischial tuberosities, watching hired professionals play...
...homespun counsel smacks of medicine's horse-and &buggy days, this is only because Brady himself is a product of that departed time. After graduating from the University of Buffalo medical school in 1901, he set up a practice and in 1914 began writing a column for the Elmira N.Y. Star Gazette. So far as Brady knows he was then the only M.D in newspaper practice...
...column had halted at two small towns to permit other hostages to come out of their hiding places in the bush...