Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Barely out of Columbia, he married red-headed Alva Taylor. Because he was the son-in-law of a famed Chicago Tribune columnist, the late Bert Leston Taylor, Gallico was made welcome on the Tribune's New York cousin, lusty Daily News. Hired to review movies, he was soon kicked downstairs to the sports department where he reigned as editor and columnist for 14 years, including a brief spell when he was also assistant managing editor. He painfully learned skiing, flying and other sports he wrote about. It made good copy...
Before 4 a. m. police roused Minneapolis Star Gossip Columnist Cedric Adams, hustled him to headquarters, demanded to know where he picked up the amazing tip he had printed ten days earlier: "I met a very close friend of mine in the Loop last night. He's given me scores of items in the past; some of them have been little scoops, too. And he's never been wrong. Here's one he dropped last night-you can take it for what it's worth. A prominent labor leader in Minneapolis will be 'taken...
When the prophecy first appeared, Columnist Adams (an erstwhile editor of Captain Billy's Whiz Bang and later Shopping. News & Guide gossiper) was promptly questioned by Minneapolis Mayor George E. Leach. He refused to tell the source of his news although Mayor Leach threatened to jail him if his grisly prediction was fulfilled. When it came all too true, Columnist Adams again told police in his scratchy, nasal voice that a reporter cannot break a confidence. Yet this was serious business. That morning, while police unavailingly checked reports that the killing was the result...
...Columnist Anna Eleanor Roosevelt has been a member of the American Newspaper Guild since...
Last week the Tennessean's Alexander revealed that three of the original kidnappers, now Tennessee businessmen, without consulting their five companions, broke their 18-year silence only to help Columnist Alexander raise money for expensive operations to save 12-year-old Truman Jr., an infantile paralysis victim. By last week the raid of 1919 had ended well for all concerned: Writer Alexander had received $1,500 from the Satevepost; 90-lb. Buddy Alexander, after two excruciating spinal operations and a blood transfusion from his father, was in a Manhattan hospital, encased in 125 pounds of plaster, grinning and beginning...