Word: columne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moved close to the eastern Congo city of Bukavu, and most of its white population were fleeing. Hundreds of miles to the west, dependents of missionaries and United Nations personnel flew out of two other provincial capitals that had been safe the week before. Reports of an advancing rebel column in Katanga were sending waves of fear through Tshombe's former stronghold of Elisabethville...
...quoted Pamela Mason as saying that neither Louella Parsons nor Hedda Hopper "writes her own column [July 17]." I cannot speak for Parsons; but I worked for Hedda Hopper for about ten years. My wife is still her private secretary, and Miss Hopper is still a close friend. The statement that she does not write her own column is false...
...TIME agrees that Pamela Mason was indulging in colorful hyperbole when she stated flatly that "Hedda Hopper doesn't write her own column...
...twelve days, the column lay ticking like a time bomb. Then last week, the Giants moved into New York for a two-game series with the Mets-and Boom!-the story exploded on the sports pages of every New York paper. Rumors seethed through the National League that Giants Owner Horace Stoneham was about to fire Dark for being a racist. Before the first Mets game, 35 newsmen crowded into the visitors' dressing room in Shea Stadium to hear Dark explain himself. "I was definitely misquoted on some things," he said, "and other statements were deformed...
...Judge Wosik had been transferred to the much less busy civil court. The transfer was, in fact, so quick that late editions of the paper that same day carried a frontpage bulletin on the judge's shift as well as Mabley's column. "The poor choice of language upset us," admitted Francis Poynton, executive assistant to the chief judge of Chicago's municipal court. Said Mabley: "We ran nothing but quotes. This is the most basic tool of journalism-the honest quote. There was not a word of criticism...