Word: columne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wednesday morning, X Ray proudly theirs, "the First Team" split into two units and moved on. For one unit, some 500 men from the 5th and 7th Regiments, it was a move toward near disaster. Barely three miles north of X Ray, the long column crossed the la Drang River. There lay two North Vietnamese soldiers sleeping in the grass, a sure sign that more trouble was not far away. It wasn't. Suddenly from all sides came a deadly hail of gunfire. The enemy seemed to be everywhere-slung in trees, dug into anthills, crouching behind bushes...
...readers, Dorothy Kilgallen became as much of a celebrity as the celebrities she covered - and often skewered. Until her death at 52 last week of still undetermined causes, she remained a triple threat of the communications world. She wrote a daily gossip column, "The Voice of Broadway," which was syndicated in 146 papers; she appeared as a panelist with a waspish will to win on the TV show What's My Line?; and she covered occasional front-page events for the Hearstpapers with a flair rarely equaled by the competition. On any assignment she made herself so conspicuous that...
...joined a race with two other New York reporters to see who could get around the world fastest by commercial airline. By clock and calendar, Dorothy came in second; in the contest for personal publicity she finished first. The Journal was so pleased that it gave her a Broadway column and a free hand. No one ever edited Dorothy; when a copyreader once had the temerity to change one of her sentences, she tried to have him fired...
...Kilgallen column was a mixture of catty gossip ("A world-famous movie idol, plastered, commanded a pretty girl to get into his limousine, take off all her clothes"), odd tidbits of inconsequential information ("The Duke of Windsor eats caviar with a spoon"), and dark hints of international espionage ("Anti-American factions are planning to blow up the Panama Canal"). When she wasn't being very nasty, she could be very nice. While she knocked Frank Sinatra and Jack Paar at every possible opportunity, she had only good things to say about Pop Singer Johnny Ray or Broadway Producer Richard...
More than most papers, the Reporter is frequently carried along by the momentum of its readers, and the correspondence columns customarily fill at least one of its ten or more pages. The letters to the editor sometimes make the best reading in the Reporter: a lively, lengthy debate on clerical celibacy was sparked by an article, written by a priest, advocating modification of the church's rule against married clergy. Readers also provide most of the items for "Cry Pax!", a weekly column noting with deadpan wit the latest in churchly foibles-such as that the movie Rotten...