Word: columne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Desert Inn. In 1950 Greenspun pleaded guilty to running arms to Israel, was fined $10,000, finally had his civil rights restored last year by President Kennedy. He long used the Sun in a vendetta against the late Senators Pat McCarran and Joseph McCarthy, once wrote a column in which he called McCarthy a "disreputable pervert." In taking on Sawyer, Greenspun would have some embarrassing Sun paragraphs to live down. Wrote he about the Governor in 1959: "He has exceeded our most extravagant hopes and predictions. Grant Sawyer is a man among men." Greenspun also gave his views last spring...
...more hours, 600 slogan-chanting West Berliners tramped faithfully behind Dieter Bielig's cross as he crusaded the length of the Wall. Women with small babies joined the column; a wheel-chaired cripple pulled frantically on his wheels to keep up with the throng. Not until 1 a.m. did the mob tire and go home...
...small group of highbrow astrologers who are trying to relate their ancient "science" to the modern sciences of space physics and psychology. Such is intense young Sidney Omarr, 36, a senior news editor for CBS Radio in Los Angeles, who also writes a seven-day-a-week syndicated column on astrology. "The present trend in astrology is research," he says. "Instead of adhering to the old textbooks, ethical astrologers are studying more psychology...
...first, Pegler supported Franklin Roosevelt. He voted for F.D.R. in 1936 and called Eleanor Roosevelt the "greatest American woman." But he soon turned misanthropic. In columns that grew steadily more vitriolic, he referred to Roosevelt as a "feebleminded fuehrer," Eleanor as "La Boca Grande." He reserved his choicest venom for Harry Truman: "thin-lipped, a hater and not above offering you his hand to yank you off balance and work you over with a chair leg, pool cue or something out of his pocket." After the assassination attempt on Truman in 1950, Pegler berated "hypocrites" for getting excited. "I hope...
Such laxness can lead to trouble. Many newspapers followed Sherri Finkbine's quest for an abortion with sickening thoroughness. The Monroe suicide, admittedly front-page news, was ballooned to ludicrous proportions: 436 column inches in a single issue of the New York Daily News, 500 the same day in the New York Post-and 799 in the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner. In the cool of autumn, the papers might have had better sense...