Word: columned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This and Columnist Art Buchwald, who walked in one day ten years ago and asked for a job, are the Trib's two most popular features. Roaming the Continent's nightclubs and halls of state, Buchwald gradually assumed the same institutional quality as his employer; his 1953 column explaining Thanksgiving Day to the Trib's 13,000 French readers is reprinted every year...
Defending his newest columnist against growing criticism, Editor Scott Newhall says loftily: "The column is aimed at the American wife who is approaching a more mature age, and affords her a chance to restore some of the excitement she had in her younger years. Count Marco is writing around the brink of a great big Freudian abyss." Where Editor Newhall may be going wrong in his circulation drive is in mistaking a sewer for an abyss...
...rate police reporter. But life's seamy side was not for Edgar Guest; he asked for a change of assignment and was moved to the exchange desk-where a steady flow of incoming verse inspired him to try a hand himself. By 1916 he was rhyming his own column seven days a week, and he kept it up for 43 years...
...Aviation Editor Harry Franken, 35, are smart, hardworking newsmen on the daily Columbus (Ohio) Citizen (circ. 85,942). But once each week the two slip off duty and into the harness of the Columbus C.I.O. News, a weekly organ for organized labor. There Reporters Franken and Grove conduct a column called "Checking the Press." Its purpose: to appraise the performance of the Columbus daily press, including their own Citizen, A recent example of their work in the C.I.O. News: "The Citizen has more and more sugar-coated its stories, has spent more and more time on the goody-goody type...
Such backbiting has been going on since 1954. when Reporters Franken and Grove, both members of the American Newspaper Guild, a C.I.O. affiliate, offered their services-at $5 a week-as undercover editors of the C.I.O. News. The column "Checking the Press" had been introduced in 1950 with the News's hope that it would "succeed in forcing the daily papers to report the news that they now suppress...