Word: columning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Long Island's fashionable North Shore. Present: Peter Brant, 31, the handsome, polo-playing stockbroker who was one of Kidder Peabody's top salesmen, and Wall Street Journal Reporter R. Foster Winans, 35, one of the writers of the Journal's "Heard on the Street" column, an influential potpourri of stock-market gossip, tips and analysis. Brant's proposal: that Winans reveal to him the timing, subject and tone of upcoming articles in the Journal, including the "Heard" column. Everyone on Wall Street knows that a positive story in "Heard on the Street" can push...
Within the week, the arrangement began to pay off. At the same time that he received $15,000 from Brant, Winans told him about a "Heard" column in the Journal that would be unflattering toward TIE/communications, a telephone equipment firm. Brant bought options that gave him the right to sell the firm's stock at a lower price, essentially betting that the stock price would go down. The day the article appeared, TIE/communications shares immediately fell 2% points, and Brant's scheme reaped profits of $106,537.77. During the next four months, Winans told Brant on at least...
...future of Roman Catholicism lies in the developing world. About one-third of Papua New Guinea's 3.4 million people are Catholics, but cherch leaders have had to struggle to adapt their faith to a culture in which cannibalism is still a living memory. A tongue-in-cheek column in a local news paper assured the Pope: "Don't be scared...
...almost parenthetically as the evening's fourth story--preceded by a Tab commercial--and only as a 20 second blurb? And why don't we find the horror stories of the battlefield massacres on the front page of The New York Times? Why is the story a short column on page A23, between a story on a municipal garbage strike and an ad for cheap shots...
Martin covered the diplomatic and political social circuit and served as a drama and film critic before starting her syndicated "Miss Manners" column, which deals humorously with what she calls a serious issue--social manners: "I am very serious about the need for civility in our society, but I don't think I could write about it seriously," Martin said in an interview yesterday...