Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shirley wanted no alimony but she wanted full custody of 20-month-old Linda Susan Agar ("The worst thing about all this," she said, "is what it will do to the baby"). To Louella's colleague, Columnist Sheilah Graham, Shirley unburdened a little more: "The trouble with my marriage started two and a half years ago, when Johnny started to drink My suit doesn't mention the drinking,'but it has become unbearable...
From the press table (where he was sitting as Newsweek's military columnist), retired General Carl "Tooey" Spaatz, 58, former Air Force Chief of Staff, shouted: "Am I supposed to be a witness here?" He added: "If I didn't make that statement, I'm willing to make it now." Radford retorted mildly: "We haven't quite reached that stage. We have camera guns that do almost as well...
When the Reader's Digest (circ. 16,000,000) decided to run Columnist Billy Rose's autobiography, Wine, Women and Words, in some of its foreign editions, it ran smack against a language barrier. Who could manage to translate what Rose himself called "grab-bag grammar and tipsy tavernacular...
...fell" into her good fortune, as she says, it was partly because Maureen pushed her. While still at Illinois' Rosary College, Maureen landed a job as a teenage columnist with the Chicago Tribune, handed it down 4½ years ago to her kid sister. Chi-Chi has tripled the number of papers...
Coosome Twosomes. Columnist Daly's busy day starts with a bubble bath and a double orange juice at 8 a.m., ends at the i a.m. curfew her mother usually succeeds in enforcing. Her column, seldom more than an hour's work, is larded with teen talk (e.g., "beau boy," "corner casbah," "coosome twosome"). Sandwiched in between chit-chat about good grooming, fads and fashions and "date data" is a thick slice of advice. Samples: "How are you going to avoid necking? . . . Simply keep away from the situations that . . . send you into a romantic mood [such as parking...