Word: columned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long time has passed," they wrote, "since an American President has seriously asked the Congress to enact a serious and comprehensive program of legislation." With that, they gave the back of their column's hand to an old friend. "The programs of Harry S. Truman were mainly intended, after all, not to be enacted into law, but to put Congress on the spot. Truman himself would probably have been horrified if the lawmakers had actually voted for some of his more extreme and ill-digested suggestions, such as the Oscar Ewing health and social security plans...
Phil Burnaman at 137 pounds momentarily put the varsity in the scoring column with a head scissors pin, but hopes of winning the meet diminished when Frank Baker and Dick Hook lost one-sided decisions...
...twelve-car main event, two micros smashed up on a turn, three others spun out, another broke a steering-column pin, climbed a bank and hit a fence; but as usual no one was hurt-in fact, in four years of micro racing, the most serious injury any driver has suffered is a broken elbow. Swarthout, who races "strictly for the laughs," since there is no prize money for micro addicts, buzzed home first in the main race. Afterward, the hat was passed, and the drivers collected $276.72 for the March of Dimes. Grinned Top-Winner Swarthout...
...thriving magazine-subscription service, wrote a column for the student paper Dynamo, and served as its poetry editor. He played a good game of chess, became his fraternity's chaplain, was a member of the Student Christian Association and the social-science honorary society, Pi Gamma Mu. Meanwhile, he majored in history and literature ("The record of humanity is in both"), and in his spare time turned out two volumes of poetry. But what amazed his professors most was his academic record...
Readers get their entertainment from the Journal in one neat, lively package: the daily, four-page "Green Sheet," the paper's most popular feature, filled with comics, pictures, a crossword puzzle, bridge column, advice to the lovelorn, crisply written local profiles, etc. Across the "Green Sheet's" front page runs a trademark nonsense banner. Sample: EVER STOP TO THINK THAT YOU COULDN'T GET VERY FAR WITHOUT HOLES IN YOUR HEAD? For late news that misses its last edition, the Journal puts out a two-page "Peach Sheet" every afternoon, gives it away free all over...