Word: columned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Simon Elwes: "A big bow to Don Iddon. His column is a necessity...
...sold his law books and car, recruited his brother Raul and 150-odd friends, raised $20,000 for guns and contraband army uniforms. At dawn on July 26. 1953, Fidel Castro led a column of 13 cars to the walls of Santiago's bristling Moncada barracks, a yellow stone pile where 1,000 Batista troops lay sleeping. A suspicious Jeep patrol came up. Castro, then 26, stepped out, raised his twelve-gauge shotgun and shot his first man. "That was the mistake," he recalls. "I had told them all to do what I did, and they all opened fire...
...Lome flew three planeloads of French paratroopers, and a column of infantry moved in to cordon off the city. Angrily, the Togolese demanded just what the French meant by this show of force. French officers, equally puzzled, said they had come to stop a revolution. Asked the Togolese huffily: "What revolution?" At his shabby house, called La Hutte, the debonair Premier airily dismissed a guard assigned to protect him against assassination: "Go away. I don't need you. If you want to sit up all night at the alert, go to your camp and do it, but leave...
Castro, who promoted an 82-man invasion into a popular rebellion against tyranny, savored every moment of his victory march. He built up the drama by lingering five days on the way from eastern Santiago, where the war began, to Havana. His 6,000-man column, moving in captured tanks, Jeeps, cars, trucks and buses, drew clusters of flag-waving Cubans along every road, was stopped in its tracks by crushing crowds in every city. Castro himself was folksy, eloquent and tireless. "How will we enter Havana?" he asked. "Let me see, we will go along the Malecon and then...
...name of the CBS "spokesman" who told her that Judy Garland "doesn't want to work . . . because something is bothering her [and] I wouldn't be surprised if it's because she thinks she's terribly fat." After this statement appeared in a Torre column in January 1957, Songstress Garland filed a $1,393,333 suit against CBS for libel and breach of contract. Subpoenaed as a witness, Columnist Torre refused to name her informant, pleading the confidential relationship of reporter to source.* Last month the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review the conviction for contempt...