Word: columned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Corning, Action Line learned that since the first such column appeared in the Houston Chronicle in 1961, the idea has spread to some 400 papers, from the New York Daily News (circ. 2 million, the nation's largest) to the mighty Logansport (Ind.) Pharos-Tribune (circ...
Robbie Fidler, 25, who writes the Manhattan (Kans.) Mercury's What About It? column, recalls a woman who ordered 1,000 African night crawlers from a Texas worm farm. Lost in the mail, came the complaint. "It's interesting to think that nobody would have noticed 1,000 night crawlers loose in the mail," she muses. Fidler traced them, and found they had not been sent. After several calls, the wife of the proprietor finally blurted tearfully that her husband had left on a business trip some weeks earlier and never returned. Fidler decided that problem was beyond...
George Appleton, who runs the Nashville Banner's Help Desk column, is most concerned about missing persons. He once helped an old Eskimo woman in Alaska trace her son and daughter to Nashville two decades after the mother found herself helpless and separated from her family following an accident that left her a double amputee living on welfare. Not all such stories end happily. One holiday season Appleton successfully traced an aging Nashville woman's long-strayed son to North Carolina, but the son did not want to see his mother. "She took it poorly," Appleton says sadly...
...recounted triumphs that would help win a district attorney reelection. Herb Brown says he has run unscrupulous hearing-aid salesmen out of New Jersey, and aided in the conviction of a fraudulent home repairer on 17 counts of embezzlement. Sharon Tucker of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune's Hotline column helped a woman settle out of court with an auto mechanic who had charged $384 for a transmission job advertised...
...write this week's column, I have already consumed six of these monstrous cans, so I'll be lucky if I even get the pairings straight...