Word: columned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bust. In Denver, Pete McDonald bought space in the personals column of the Rocky Mountain News for a message: 'To my sponsors, friends and anyone else it may concern: I regret to state my climb of Pikes Peak on stilts has been temporarily delayed by a visit to the V.A. Hospital, Denver. However...
...Japan, where 23,500 people killed themselves last year, and the suicide rate increases by 5% a year, Candy Salesman Akira Emoto, 31. was long regarded as a candidate for the statistics column. He brooded, he ate sleeping pills and last summer he tried to poison himself. "Just you wait." he told friends in the southern city of Kokonoe, "very soon I shall do something that will startle the nation...
Lest accusations of normality fall about her column-conscious ears, deep-breathing Cinemactress Jayne Mansfield revealed the joys of a California Christmas. Her gift, from Muscleman Mickey Hargitay: a finny new pink Cadillac. Jayne's present to Mickey: a red and white Christmas stocking, bulged out with 9 Ibs. 9½ oz. of their newborn (Dec. 21) son Miklos...
...read stories; other staffers chatted conversationally among themselves on topics of the hour. Taped interviews with Timesmen overseas gave listeners a Timeslike ration of international affairs. Every day Theodore M. Bernstein, the Times's able, shirt-sleeved assistant managing editor, patiently and expertly filled for his audience, column by column, an imaginary Times Page One-and emerged as a radio personality in his own right...
During 27 years of association, the Herald Tribune has treated Columnist Lippmann with awe-struck respect, even going so far as to pass a typist's error in punctuation. The column, originally syndicated to twelve papers, has consistently picked up new subscribers. Today Lippmann is the most widely quoted and acclaimed pundit in the world; Pravda has reprinted at least one of his pieces verbatim; Historian James Truslow Adams solemnly declared after Lippmann joined the Trib that "what happens to Lippmann in the next decade may be of greater interest than what happens to any other single figure...