Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Bertie Charles ("B.C.") Forbes, 73, Scottish-born onetime Hearst financial editor and columnist 'who started his own semimonthly business magazine, Forbes (circ. 128,623), in 1917; of a heart attack; at his desk in his Manhattan office. A prolific chronicler of tycoons' careers-e.g., Andrew Carnegie, James B. Duke, John D. Rockefeller-B.C. strove to "humanize" Big Business, larded his Forbes columns with hearty aphorisms. Examples: "Rest? Yes. Rust? No! . . . The self-starter never allows his steam to run down . . . Everything may not be for the best, but let's make the best...
...doing a damn thing" to helping out in the publicity department. The payroll was discovered by the Journal-Bulletin as a result of a state investigation on whether the track could afford to pay higher taxes. Organizer of the sportswriters working for the track: Hearst's Boston Record Columnist Dave Egan, who doubled as Rockingham's pressagent at more than $5,000 a year. It was Egan who had arranged for the reporters, including six other staffers of the morning Record and its sister afternoon paper, the American, to be paid by the track...
...Senator called and asked Goff not to press for criminal action, but to handle the case within the Post Office Department. But by that time it was too late; the case was already being pushed by U.S. Attorney Madison Graves in Nevada. (Vacationing at the Tucson home of Columnist Westbrook Pegler last week, McCarthy said that he had never seen the Greenspun column, but that his office might have sent it to the Post Office Department...
...alma mater, defended the negative of the topic, "Resolved, That investigation of subversives be restricted to the Federal Bureau of Investigation," and won a two to one verdict over the College team. Judges for the event, which was hold in Milwaukee, were two high school debate coaches and a columnist from the strongly pro-McCarthy Milwaukee Sentinel...
Died. Jacquin Leonard (Jack) Lait, 71, oldtime Chicago newspaperman, since 1936 editor of Hearst's tabloid New York Mirror (circ. 913,691 daily, 1,664,703 Sunday); after long illness; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Editor Lait doubled the Mirror's circulation, with Nightclub Columnist Lee Mortimer turned out four controversial "Confidential" guides to U.S. scandal and vice. Asked how he kept up his prodigious writing output (8 plays, 20 books, 1,500 short stories), Author Lait rasped: "Fiction is a cinch. I just set the screw in my head for 2,800 words, and out it comes...