Word: columne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agriculture voting record. Humphrey was beaten in the state adjoining his own Minnesota, by an urbane Easterner with a Harvard accent. But he was still a very lively candidate. His hard work among the farmers had paid off handsomely: only one farm district, the seventh, fell into the Kennedy column, but it was 64% Catholic Portage County, in the center of the district, that gave Kennedy his 6,000 plurality in the seventh. There are a few signs that Humphrey benefited from crossover support of Protestant Republicans (in Richland County, a Republican farm area, Humphrey polled 2,418 votes, Nixon...
...with understandably intense convictions on civil rights, Robinson last April approached a friend, Negro Playwright William Branch, with the idea of writing a column for a Negro newspaper...
Branch suggested that the civil-righteous Post might provide a better soapbox. Post Publisher Dorothy Schiff was delighted with the idea, agreed to pay Robinson $150 a week (which Jackie splits with Branch, who writes the column after Robinson dictates the story line...
...This won't be a knock-knock-knock column," promised Robinson at the very outset-whereupon he started spraying his knocks to all fields. Sometimes he dismays even the Post, as when he declared that he might be compelled to support Republican Richard Nixon for President if the Democrats failed to nominate a staunch civil rights candidate...
Says the Post's Nixon-baiting Editor James Wechsler: "You can imagine our surprise when we saw that column." Now and then, to keep sports fans from starving, Robinson throws them a bare bone: "The National League picture this year again shows a race between Los Angeles, San Francisco and Milwaukee." The Post seems satisfied enough with its bargain. Says Editor Wechsler: "There's a lot of reaction to the column pro and con, but the main thing is that there is reaction. The writing style may not be the greatest in history...