Word: columne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reporting with the Telephone. At about 9:30 Riesel began to gather, by telephone, the material for the day's column. While he placed calls all over...
Miriam Goldnne consulted the office background file. All this took three hours. Over a sandwich and coffee at his desk, Riesel listened again while Miriam read aloud the accumulated story notes. Then he wrote his column, from time to time asking help: "Read me the citation in the Kefauver report ... I want exact figures on the Sun Valley land deal." It took him one hour and 3^ triple-spaced typewritten pages, each full page breaking neatly with a finished paragraph...
...years ago Franklin Pierce Adams, who practiced the art of column writing for nearly 40 years, broke the silence of retirement to comment on a later generation of columnists. "I worked all day and half the night writing and rewriting, polishing and refining each column," he said. "Today's columnists won't work. It's no use to advise them. They won't work...
...column after ecstatic column, the Russian press covered the rescue and the landing of the boys in San Francisco, where they got ceremonial plywood keys to the city from Mayor George Christopher (just back from a visit to Moscow), were outfitted in new clothes, filled with Cokes, and taken on a tour. (They proved grateful but reticent heroes, and a bit overwhelmed.) Khrushchev's cables to them were also printed ("We are proud and filled with admiration"), as well as his cable to President Eisenhower ("The gallant conduct of the American seamen is an expression of those friendly relations...
...young manhood in full vigor of mind and body, with a crapshooter's wrist, moral faculties unblunted by use, and a more than Hearstian knowledge of what makes news paper readers salivate. By middle age he is reduced to physical paralysis and the ignominy of writing an agony column un der the pseudonym of Miss Friendship (clearly a fictional cousin of Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts...