Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What did it all add up to? Columnist Grantland Rice wrote angrily: "Unfortunately, too much money has come into sport. Call it big business-football, baseball or tennis-but don't call it sport . . . in my opinion the colleges, with the money they hand out to alleged amateurs, are far below the professionals in ethics and true sportsmanship...
...well-made-up front page, sound news coverage and conscious inaccuracy were often neighbors. Says sports columnist Al Laney, a Heraldmau for ten years "We used to fake stories all the time. Often we used to make up the front page at 8 p.m. [it was a morning paper], before we knew what the news would be. Then we would just find stories to fit." Touring Americans, flattered to find their names in the society columns, often bought 50 or more copies to send to the folks back home...
Cinema Hard Guy George Raft, who had been getting the full treatment from Columnist Westbrook Pegler (who disapproved of Raft's associates and felt that Raft was just about as black as the movies painted him), suddenly had a little trouble with a 50-year-old attorney named Edward Raiden. Back before Christmas of last year, charged Raiden, he had been sent to Raft by 19-year-old Betty Doss to recover some finery which Raft had given her and then yanked back. While one of Raft's friends held him, the attorney complained, Raft gave...
...first sports story for Hearst's old New York American with his full name, and Sports Editor Harry Cashman, striking out the Alfred, told him, "From now on you're Damon Runyon." The byline was to make him several millions as a war correspondent, fictioneer, movie producer, columnist, all-round reporter and tamperer with the language. His Broadwayese delighted Britons as well as Americans; and grammarians were alarmed by the numbers who preferred Runyon's English to the King's. Webster never told them that a G was $1,000, a wrong gee a no-good...
...small (circ. 2,200) Sonoma (Calif.) Index-Tribune had a new, big-name columnist last week, and had him all to itself. His name: General of the Army Henry H. Arnold, lately boss of the A.A.F. During the war Hap Arnold bought a ranch in Jack London's famed Valley of the Moon, and told his next-door neighbors, co-Publishers Walter and Celeste Murphy, that he'd like to write for their weekly some time. They believed it a fortnight ago when they saw his first contribution, a bucolic homily titled Back to the Farm. Excerpts...