Word: columning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from his fellow prisoners to pass them on to the Japanese, once knocked down a G.I. and stripped him of his boots because a Japanese officer said he wanted them. One retired U.S. colonel testified indignantly that Sergeant Provoo had yelled at him and other prisoners marching in a column: "All right, you guys, get over to this side...
...fall of that same year--1951--News editor Norman Roy Grutman reported in an editorial page column called "Slings and Arrows": "Hillhouse beat West Haven by one pizza after touchdown." Neither of these heavily Italian high schools appreciated Grutman's high humor. After embarrassing the University and producing a larger abyss between the two groups, the News printed an editorial apology...
Cannon worked on almost every New York daily, first made a name as a columnist with "Sergeant Cannon Says," a column of eloquent, olive-drab barracks talk written for the now defunct PM while he was a G.I. Later, Stars & Stripes made him a combat correspondent in Europe. At war's end he joined the Post to write sports, did a stint as a war correspondent in Korea. When he saw the Herald Tribune's Marguerite Higgins at the front, Cannon remarked: "Meeting Maggie at the front for the first time is like meeting Brenda Frazier...
...columns are full of opinions and hard-eyed writing on everything from sports and stuffed shirts to women and war. "Any man is in difficulty," writes Bachelor Cannon, "if he falls in love with a woman he can't knock down with the first punch." After Korea, he reported that "combat soldiers are the loneliest people in the world. What a man does in a period of war he carries around inside of him forever." When Herman Hickman, Yale's 300-lb. football coach resigned, Cannon began a column: "There is enough room in one of Herman Hickman...
Winchell's column carried the Schlesinger paragraph in conjunction with a castigation of the Hariford Board of Education, which had voted to allow singer Paul Robeson to use Hartford's Weaver high School auditorium for a contest in behalf of the Progressive Party...