Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quite true, since Adlai Stevenson's 1952 campaign braintrust included two top A.D.A. men, onetime Housing Expediter Wilson Wyatt and Columnist-Historian Arthur Schlesinger...
...toll mounted last week. One man was brained with a monkey wrench as he lay sleeping. A woman, tied to a chair, was tortured with a carving knife until she died; two stripteasers were sliced to death with razors; four gangsters were shot down in a columnist's living room; a bartender was murdered in his own saloon, and a small boy was killed by a drunken hit & run driver. A few victims survived, including the two teen-agers who were only beaten to a pulp, and the woman in the flimsy nightgown who was mauled by masked intruders...
...hears-and prints it on the theory that liveliness is more important than documented facts. "Rumors persist, though it seems improbable." she wrote recently, "that George Jessel will be the next envoy to Israel." On occasion, the rumors backfire. Once she made the mistake of crossing pens with Rival Columnist Austine ("Bootsie") Hearst of the Times-Herald, erroneously reported that Austine, six months after the birth of one child, was expecting another. Austine retaliated with her own equally erroneous item: childless Evie Gordon was "at long last . . . expecting" (TIME...
...Washington, Society Columnist Evelyn Peyton Gordon of the Daily News is read by almost everyone from ambassador to upstairs maid. They all count on Evie for the latest tidbits about the most-dropped names in town. Last week Evie let her readers in on something that had happened to Evie herself. She was about to go down the reception line at a White House party when she remembered an unpleasant rumor that had gone the rounds. Was it true, she asked Mamie Eisenhower's Secretary Mary Jane McCaffree, that there was a new ban against working reporters' going...
...been covering White House receptions since the days of Calvin Coolidge, and it's the first time I ever heard of invited guests being told they could not follow the route to the presidential handshake . . . despite their correct evening attire, their long white gloves." Added Columnist Gordon later: "We might as well go in galoshes and tweed hats." The Battles of Protocol. A late-in-life blonde with the temper of a redhead, Columnist Gordon has fought many a skirmish before on the field of protocol...