Word: columne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presidential candidate. The effort was upsetting precedents, leaving more than one patch of pants on the barbed wire. The Los Angeles Times, which had backed Nelson Rockefeller against Goldwater in the California primary, decided to stand by individual liberty, private enterprise and Barry Goldwater, thus remaining in the G.O.P. column for its 84th year. The New York Herald Tribune, with an even longer record-more than 100 years-as a Republican stalwart, said: WE CHOOSE JOHNSON. Confessed the Trib: "Travail and torment go into those simple words. But we find ourselves as Americans, even as Republicans, with no other acceptable...
...Joseph Kress, 44, a proud Navy mother in Dubuque, Iowa, walked into the Dubuque Telegraph-Herald newsroom with a little item for the paper's servicemen's column. She had a letter from her son, James J. Kress, 20, a fireman aboard the U.S. destroyer Richard S. Edwards, and she wanted Jimmy's friends to know where he was. The letter began: "Dear Mom and Dad: In case you haven't heard the names of those destroyers that were attacked in the Tonkin Gulf last Friday night, they were the R. S. Edwards and the Morton...
Sports '68 is a weekly column dealing with freshman athletics...
...Europe last week on an indeterminate leave of absence. His abrupt departure seemed surprising in a man who has always relished the partisan enthusiasms of a presidential campaign, the chance to expound for his readers on every facet of American politics. But this year, said Joe in his final column, "the campaign has been a dreary business." And in a letter to his syndicate, he explained that the dreariness was as much in him as it was on the hustings...
...Last year, supposing I could work nonstop as I once could, I devoted my whole holiday from the column to my book on the Greek Bronze Age. Consequently, I went back to my regular work about as stale as one of those pieces of 3,000-year-old bread that they sometimes find in Egyptian tombs. Then last spring I made an extremely taxing round-the-world reporting trip. After getting back from Saigon in mid-May, I was never really well, and this general misery crystallized into an interminable bout of summer flu and bronchitis that made this year...