Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Post Columnist Earl Wilson took off his clothes and attended a nudist convention at Sunshine Park, N.J. "If your wife wears a nightgown at breakfast," he wrote, "don't cuss her. Congratulate her. I looked rather thoroughly at these nude women and believe...
Another patient was under the delusion that his mother had been murdered by a doctor. Now a gossip columnist, he is beginning to realize that his delusion is irrational. Sometimes just reading the paper* has helped. A paragraph in the June issue jibed: "To -- on Hall 7, are you still chasing spirits all over the place? Catch any?" Roused out of his seclusion by the taunt, the patient on Hall 7 explained to his doctor that he wasn't seeing ghosts as normal people think of them, but "seeing" the animosities of people he came into contact with...
...Eleanor Medill ("Cissie") Patterson: to seven newsmen, her newspaper, the Washington Times-Herald (see PRESS) ; to her daughter, Countess Felicia Gizycka, virtually all her personal belongings, an estate on Long Island, an estate in North Dakota, a $25,-000 annual income; to Mrs. Evelyn ("Evie") Robert, flamboyant Times-Herald columnist (Eve's Rib), Washington business properties, her black pearl earrings, a sable scarf; to the Red Cross, her Washington home at 15 Dupont Circle; to various charities "aiding needy children, especially homeless and orphan children," the residue of her multimillion-dollar estate; to her granddaughter, Ellen Pearson Arnold, daughter...
Deutsch's column was read by people involved in fundraising. Said one: "Hmmm. We can't keep on killing people forever." It is likely that some changes will be made. For Columnist Deutsch, who never studied medicine, is nevertheless a power in U.S. medical journalism. In 1945, when he launched a one-man attack on the medical setup of the Veterans Administration, he almost went to jail. He refused to name his news sources for a series of 50 articles (13 of them containing constructive suggestions, a fair Deutsch percentage) and was voted in contempt of Congress...
...Columnist Drew Pearson last week paid his last respects. Wrote he: "A great lady died the other day-a lady who had caused me much happiness-and much pain. She was my ex-mother-in-law, Eleanor Patterson, who used to write about me in such scathing terms that even the very frank TIME Magazine had to interpret them with dots and dashes ... Sometimes Page I featured headlines about 'the headache boy'-Cissie's description of her ex-son-in-law . . . Today, Senator Brewster of Maine has his offices stacked high with 75,000 reprints...