Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Columnist Hal Boyle urged Mrs. H. to take a year-long trip around the world and see everything. The New York Daily News thought there was a better way: "Come to New York . . . and just stay here till the sands run out . . . There is next to nothing [that] you can't find . . . even dude ranches...
...religion has most strikingly expressed itself in the activist tradition (i.e., hospitals, orphanages and other forms of good works), has taken so well to Merton's inward-looking brand of spirituality. Whether or not U.S. religious interests are growing more contemplative, they are certainly growing. Chicago Daily News Columnist Sydney J. Harris said of The Seven Storey Mountain: "This book shows how far we have traveled since the 'sos. First, we were the social revolutionaries, looking down our noses at Babbitts. Then we realized that social problems were linked to politics and economics. We became political revolutionaries. Finally...
Last week, Columnist-Crusader Albert Deutsch of the New York Post raised a hue & cry against the dangers of DDT, with a series of articles called "DDT and You." Deutsch based his original assertions on research by Manhattan's Dr. Morton Biskind, printed in The American Journal of Digestive Diseases. Deutsch contended that the mysterious ailment called virus X, which rose to epidemic proportions in Los Angeles about two years ago, has the same symptoms as DDT poisoning and may be traced to indiscriminate use of the chemical. X disease, which has attacked herds of cattle in 37 states...
...Russians did not have to listen to such words of protest often. Whenever unpleasantness threatened, an American leaped into the breach. When Dwight Macdonald, editor of the anti-Communist magazine Politics, asked Fadeev at a press conference what had happened to several Soviet writers who have disappeared, Daily Worker Columnist Howard Fast jumped up and cried: "I know what has happened to all the people who could not be here with us ... I wait myself to be arrested at any time." Fast seemed overly apprehensive. Even Leipzig-born Communist Gerhart Eisler, facing deportation, was at liberty and in attendance...
...incident last summer contradicts Mullins' claim: While I was in the office of the Herald's political columnist, his phone rang, and Mullins identified the caller as Choate. The topic of conversation appeared to be Mullins' treatment of the Robert Bradford-Sinclair Weeks split at the Republican Convention. Weeks, a perusal of old Heralds may convince you, did not come off too well in Mullins' columns in the immediate end-of-convention period. As soon as Mullins hung up he went into Choate's office, and did not return for half an hour...