Word: columned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Time's technique is perhaps best revealed in its weekly column on the Presidency. Its reports on Presidential behavior are able to rise above objectivity and perceive distinctions where none are apparent. Thus, "President Truman flapped open his leather notebook and began in his usual flat tone to read his message to Congress on the State of the Union. When he finished 45 minutes later, he had made little news...
...have devoted 92 lines of the Oct. 10 Cinema section to a busty English vaudeville actress called Diana Dors, explaining in unnecessary detail the color of her lawnmower and second-hand Rolls-Royce, yet in your Milestones column you give only a scant nine lines to the memory of America's greatest young actor, James Dean, who was killed in an untimely accident...
...developed into one of the best. But when he came to TIME ten years ago, with only brief journalistic experience (on the Providence Journal and Baltimore Sun), he recalls that he couldn't put together enough good material in a week to fill the Miscellany column. And after he wrote his first film review, Darrach's senior editor returned it to him with the notation: "Sure, sure, but what was the movie about...
Reading the column in the Washington Post and Times Herald, Deputy Attorney General Rogers promptly blew up and called Executive Editor Russell Wiggins. Rogers said the story was not true, demanded a swift retraction. After a meeting with Pearson and Rogers, in which Rogers gave the facts and the proof of them, Wiggins told Rogers that he had a "solution." He would have a reporter check up on the story...
...Post and Times Herald made no mention of the column, which Pearson still insists was "correct." Said Rogers: "About the only accurate statement in [Pearson's] entire column was the address of my house...