Word: columned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Italian count, but Marco will not inherit the title, blandly admits that his use of it is "crass and commercial"), wispy, mustachioed Count Marco, 41, is a widower, an ex-actor (he played the fool in Twelfth Night), ex-producer of television soap operas, ex-hairdresser. His column "Beauty and the Beast," smirkingly instructs San Francisco housewives on all manner of boudoir-and-bathroom behavior. A prize example...
...doctrine of total hate found a ready medium in some Negro newspapers, which began to exploit Negro hopes and fears after the Emmett Till case. The Pittsburgh Courier, Negro national weekly, and the Los Angeles Herald-Dispatch, booming West Coast Negro paper, not only gained attention from his personal column, but also found their circulations boosted fast by Moslems who hawked the papers on street corners as a spiritual duty. Such leading Negro Harlem politicos as Congressman Adam Clayton Powell (pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church) and Manhattan Borough President Hulan Jack have curried Moslem favor, even though full-fledged...
Room for All. A full week ahead of the big day, the guajiros began arriving-the first few by plane, then big shipments by train. Navy ships, buses and private cars brought in the hordes. One column of 1,500 rode into town on horseback. FARMERS, THIS IS YOUR HOME, read the signs on public buildings...
With the Apollo lay two lesser but still important finds: a bronze Muse from the era of Praxiteles and a fifth century marble column with the head of Hermes. Archaeologists speculate that an exporter may have warehoused the statues for shipment to Imperial Rome some time during the Augustan Age. and then lost track of them. At week's end four new finds were reported, including a bronze shield covered with bas-reliefs. Feverish digging continued. The street may yield more still...
What Is Chastity? Originally planned as part of Comfort Me with Apples (TIME, April 30, 1953). the new book almost seems like a double take of the earlier novel. The hero is again Chick Swallow, the poor man's Freud, who writes a lonelyhearts column called "The Lamplighter." His chief anxiety is still his sophomoric brother-in-law Nickie Sherman, a fool in bon motley. In Comfort, Nickie salvaged his ego by catching a crook; in Tents, Nickie becomes a crook, at odd hours, and ends up chasing his own split personality. In Comfort, the happily married Chick found...