Word: columned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Underwear Too Tight? Paar leaped into the fray with both feet. He speculated that Winchell's column is actually "written by a fly" (citing the speckline punctuation between items as evidence), guessed that his "high, hysterical voice" results from his "too-tight underwear." He cried that WW would like to run the Paar Show but "hasn't a chance" because, he said, Winchell flopped in four of his own TV shows...
...Whenever there are runners on the bases and a righthanded batter steps up," wrote Red Smith in his syndicated sports column, "a sense of impending doom settles upon the multitude. Fear grips the pitcher. Panic stalks the stands. Maybe the batter will pop the ball harmlessly into the stratosmog, but the threat of a shattering home run is always imminent...
...very suggestion that he might leave town touched off sentimental blasts on the front pages of every New York newspaper. Sportswriters bled by the column that Walter was betraying the Borough of Brooklyn. Brooklyn, Walter answered, was betraying him. Fans were staying away from Ebbets Field in droves...
Died. Frank Kent, 80, Baltimore Sun and syndicated columnist (The Great Game of Politics), author (Political Behavior, A History of the Democratic Party); of uremic poisoning; in Baltimore. Kent was a registered Democrat, but his column-which at its peak in the '30s ran in well over 100 papers-was bitterly anti-New Deal, involved him in several celebrated controversies, e.g., with Harry Hopkins, to whom Kent attributed the statement: "We will tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect." Kent came out strongly for Eisenhower six months before the Republican Convention of 1952, continued to write...
Despite the absence of many key men, enough newcomers broke into the winning column for the varsity track team to enable the Crimson to coast to an easy 86 1/3 to 53 2/3 win over Princeton at Princeton Saturday...