Word: columning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hope of a squib for his column, however, O'Hara sat down after getting the lather off his chin and wrote a letter asking what the Senator thought of the new prexy. Harvardman O'Hara expected nothing more than a note saying McCarthy thought Neighbor Pusey was a fine fellow. But to O'Hara's amazement, McCarthy saw Red. He wrote...
...York Times letters column, Old Socialist Norman Thomas found a letter from Old Philosopher Bertrand Russell defending teachers who refuse to answer the questions of congressional committees. Britain's Russell compared the teachers' stand to George Washington's disobedience of the law and to the Christian martyrs' refusal to sacrifice to the emperor. This was too much for Thomas, who this week fired off a letter of his own to the Times. Wrote...
...powerful International Typographical Union. But the I.T.U. now goes along with it, except for "cheap tape," i.e., syndicated features like Columnists Pearson, Winchell, the Alsops and 47 others, which Manhattan's Tape Production Corp. mails out in rolls of tape to more than 130 dailies for 50? a column. The union also still bitterly opposes the use of typists instead of compositors to set TTS copy, sarcastically calls it a "promising means of union-busting." Thus far, TTS has not created unemployment among I.T.U. members. Papers like the Boulder (Colo.) Camera have simply been able to expand their coverage...
Much of the hearing was devoted to a reading aloud of Winchell's columns by lawyers, plainly a pleasant ordeal for Winchell. In good humor, he volunteered so many comments that his own lawyer cautioned him: "It is better if you would just listen." When Post Lawyer Simon H. Rifkind, onetime federal judge, set forth that Winchell had printed Russian propaganda, Winchell amiably agreed. "Do you remember when Mr. Churchill made his famous speech [in 1946, warning of Russian aggression] at Fulton, Mo.?" asked Rifkind. Answered Winchell: "I panned hell out of it." He admitted having used...
...Winchell observed, and while he had no love for Communists, he had also loathed many of the "Sovvy-baiters." "Do you think it would be fair to comment that you had been duped [by the Communists]?" asked Rifkind. "[I] might have been," answered Winchell. "And was your column used as a place to plant pro-Communist propaganda?" "I am wide open to that, too," replied Winchell. "Anybody is, I believe, that writes in the public papers...