Word: columning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...illegal organization; cessation of the campaign now being carried on to subvert the loyalty of the peoples of border areas; cessation of all propaganda tending to undermine democratic processes in this country; and cessation of the attempt on all fronts to build up in this country a fifth column loyal to People's China...
Sound from the Neck. To nobody's great surprise, the lone journalistic voice raised in all-out defense of a ban on pretrial reporting came from Columnist Westbrook Pegler, who is having his own court troubles (see below). Said Pegler in his column: "The contention that [such a ban] would violate freedom of the press is only a neck-sound unrelated to the heart of the subject...
...Among other dailies that publish Pegler's column: Miami Herald, Cincinnati Enquirer, Nashville Tennessean, Washington News...
When a citizens' committee asked him to head the "Hire the Handicapped Week" for Houston in 1949, Anderson accepted, but only on condition that hiring the handicapped be a year-round project for local industries. On his return to the Press, where he writes a fishing column, he also found time to write stories on the handicapped and chivvy personnel managers into hiring them. As a result, Houston employers hired 2,280 handicapped people in 1953. When a crippled vet gets out of a hospital in Houston, boasts Anderson, "he don't loaf more than 36 hours...
More than a dozen dailies in smaller cities have combined with their competition to print in the same plant, thus cutting production costs while keeping editorial staffs separate. Marshall Field's tabloid Chicago Sun-Times has begun to stay in the black by adding a sixth column to its five-column page, thus crowding more news into less paper. Pittsburgh's three dailies are getting ready to make a similar move by adding a ninth column to their eight-column pages. Says one publisher: "The ninth column is here to stay...