Word: columning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...compliance with Emma J. Jonis' wish for a Chinese painting as expressed in your May 27 Letters column [Reader Jonis praised TIME'S May 6 "Masterpieces of Chinese Art," wished she owned one called Mist in Wooded Mountains], I hasten to offer her my own work entitled Home Beyond the Mist...
...hero is a newspaperman-"Miss Lonelyhearts" is his only name known to the reader-who writes the lovelorn column for the New York Post-Dispatch. He is one of West's quasi-religious figures: "A beard would become him, would accent his Old Testament look." To the millions without emotional refuge, says one character sardonically, "the Miss Lonelyhearts are the priests of twentieth-century America." The mail brings the daily semiliterate confessions of horror. "Dear Miss Lonelyhearts," one letter begins: "I am sixteen years old now and I dont know what to do ... When I was a little girl...
...OMAN, by James Morris (146 pp.; Panfheon; $3.50), is about one of those diplomatic escapades which Britain still occasionally stage-manages with a fine and crafty imperial hand. The sultanate of Muscat and Oman commands, like an Arabian Gibraltar, the entry to the Persian Gulf. In 1955 a fifth column of Saudi Arabian agents with oil-glazed eyes was busily subverting the sultan's power and touting the claims of the euphonically titled Imam of Oman. Four British-officered armies of the sultan set about trying to sweep the Imam out of Oman...
...five-column picture showed Britain's Prince Philip in Denmark standing over a simpering nurse named Peggy Goodchild (see cut). But if the Express (circ. 4,042,334) knew what "caused the twinkle in the Prince's eye and the obvious blush on the maiden's cheek," it was not telling. Instead, it offered a ?100 ($280) prize to the reader who sent in a caption arch enough to "capture the mood of the moment in the brightest...
...readers scurried to tell the editors just what the Prince could have told the bashful maid, the rival Daily Mirror (circ. 4,649,696) rode TO THE RESCUE one day before the Express' deadline. WHAT COULD THE PRINCE HAVE SAID? asked the tabloid Mirror in a seven-column layout. The answer: Nothing. "His conversation with her had ended BEFORE she looked bashful!" trumpeted the Mirror. The Mirror tracked down the photographer who took the one-in-ten-thousand picture, and he confirmed the Mirror's beat. Not only was the Prince not talking to the nurse when...