Word: columning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Parts Grease. Last week in his "Strictly Personal" column, syndicated in 16 papers around the U.S., Harris walloped writers of swashbuckling historical novels; rose to the defense of unstuffy clergymen ("Dull[ness] and pompous[ness] . . . has nothing to recommend it, neither piety nor good sense"); punctured the idea that Europeans are more "romantic" than Americans; criticized a congressional investigation of obscene books ("There is not, and has never been, any real evidence that literature, even of the lowest order, has ever 'corrupted' morals") ; and tossed off a few of his typically irreverent "Purely Personal Prejudices" ("Whenever I meet...
Another TIME story sparked the writing of still another book. The article was about Franklin Reed, young reporter for the Houston Post, who was assigned to cover the city's draft boards, eventually got drafted himself, then wrote a column about his experiences in training camp, going overseas and, finally, serving in Korea (TIME, Oct. 13). Mrs. Richard L. Simon read the story, then handed the magazine to her husband, of the publishing firm of Simon & Schuster. "You must read this," she told him. "I'll bet Reed has a wonderful book...
Simon read the article, got clippings of Reed's column, and decided his wife was right. In a letter to Reed, he said: "I read the clippings yesterday and felt for the first time that I, as an American, had a bridge between the everyday life I lead and the life led by the men and boys who are fighting our fight in Korea . . . You talk in terms that hundreds of thousands can understand ... as if you are talking to your friends at a bar or in a drugstore . . or during a visit on a front porch...
...crisis: 1) the failure of Ike's advisers to foresee the difficulty, and 2) misleading reports of what Wilson told the Senate Armed Services Committee. The sum of the reports that leaked from the committee's executive session was a very bad press for Wilson. Column after column of type left the impression that he was being arrogant, that he didn't understand how there could be a conflict of interests between private business and Government, that he was going to have things his way, or else...
Back in England, Yeo-Thomas sold Churchill on his plan to drop enough arms and equipment to the Resistance forces to raise up a formidable fifth column in France, and in February 1944 he was flown to France again to supervise the new program. A little more than three weeks later, Yeo-Thomas was betrayed by a liaison agent, and captured...