Word: columned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Whose syndicated column she used last week to flail the electronic monster that created her: "Maybe the brisk climate that prodded our forebears into building a nation has become too well heated to build a network with blood coursing through its veins...
...three stories about the Myerses but even those yielded the lead position to an unusual real-estate story suggested by Publisher E. Washington Rhodes, 61, onetime Pennsylvania legislator, state parole board member, and the first Negro to serve as an assistant U.S. Attorney in the area. In two full columns, jumping to a column inside, the paper listed the addresses, prices and brief descriptions of 187 Levittown houses being offered for sale by the Veterans Administration, which has foreclosed on defaulted mortgages. Reported the Tribune succinctly: "The Veterans Administration wants its money, and they don't care who buys...
...Creeps has no makeup editor. Every department just turns its copy in to the printers, who simply follow a policy that all the news is fit to print-even when it means running a story from one column to the preceding one. The paper may well be the only one in the world with three separate editorial pages, each allowed to pursue its own vendettas and crusades with joyous disregard for overall policy. Thus, in one issue, in addition to Cabot's own editorial-page salute to the paper's founder, his colleague J. B. Martinez wrote...
Half a century had carried nearly all of his contemporary actors of the Revolution into the abyss of time, and he now stood like an imposing column that had been raised to commemorate deeds and principles that a whole people had been taught to reverence...
...Reporter John Davis, 35, wrote that "there is absolutely no control over pistol sales."* Reported Davis: "In a shopping tour of gunshops and pawnshops, one thing was apparent: all you need to buy a $29.50 pistol in Houston is $29.50." Backing up his story, the Post ran a three-column cut of a .32-cal. Harrington & Richardson revolver bought by Davis-and a pawnshop's receipt for $29.50. Newsman Davis was not even asked for identification, despite a seldom-enforced, awkwardly worded appendage to a Texas statute which stipulates that firearms may be sold only to buyers who have...