Word: columning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John Fox was everything a newspaperman should not be. Under the name Washington Waters he wrote a financial column with some of history's most thunderously wrong predictions, e.g., that the Korean war would be a good time to sell short because of a falling market. A frenetic promoter, he once called in his ad manager and announced: "I've got an idea that will knock the Jews in this town on their butts. We're going to send cows to Israel." He got Bernard Goldfine to donate the first cow toward a project that fell flat...
...plantation at the edge of the mountain foothills. The servicemen, their driver and the bus conductor were loaded aboard the trucks and carted off into the mountains, captives of Fidel Castro's leftist, anti-U.S. brother Raúl, who commands the rebels' Sierra del Cristal column...
...last week a four-column ad in the newspaper El Comercio called on Lima's Catholic women to congregate at Santa Rosa Church, a few blocks from the presidential palace, "as an expression of sorrow and regret before our Holy Father Pius XII in this hour of trial to our faith that has sent a shudder through the hearts of Peru's Catholics. We will pray for our church, for the sanctity of matrimony." Five thousand women-many from Lima's top society-heeded the call, parading past the presidential palace and the cathedral and chanting hymns...
...innovations as the inverted falling leaf, made him one of the many fathers of dive-bombing, ended when he resigned from the regular Navy in 1930 in protest against sea duty. A Georgetown-trained lawyer, he was no less articulate than air-minded, wrote a syndicated Scripps-Howard newspaper column while he worked as flying salesman and good-will man for Gulf Oil Co., meanwhile kept a part-time military franchise with a Marine Corps Reserve commission. For advocating a separate U.S. air force, Al Williams was forced to resign from the Marine Corps in 1940. He countered by offering...
...paper is a colossal bore. Turgid editorials crawl on, column after column; leaden propaganda handouts in the form of "news" stories weigh down the front page. But in Communist China, nearly everyone who is anyone reads the People's Daily of Peking-and for good reason. As the official organ of both party and government. the eight-page daily (circ. 700,000) is handbook and scripture to right-thinking Chinese Reds...