Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chicago's Educational Television Association, scheduled to go on the air over Channel 11, appealed for a distinctive set of call letters. Some 200 enthusiasts last week responded with education-slanted suggestions ranging from WPHD and WIQ to WTET ("Welcome to Educational Television"). Columnist Larry Wolters, in the Chicago Tribune, regretfully noted that several likely candidates were already in use: KNOW, WHO, WHAT, and WABC. Wolters suggested...
...Columnist Paddleford. who can smell a food story behind any big news, toured England at coronation time ("Fluids are hissing, greases are sputtering . . . foods are en masse, the raw and the cooked awaiting the administering hands of the experts"), traveled to Fulton, Mo. in 1946 to hear Churchill's famous Iron Curtain speech (where she interviewed a grocer who said that there were so many dinners given in honor of the event that he sold "enough parsley to decorate the gymnasium"). One New Year's Day. she appropriately headed a column "Some Morning-After Cures" (samples: twelve dashes...
Wiggle in the Tail. Born on a farm in Kansas, she majored in journalism at Kansas State College, worked as a staffer on Farm & Fireside before going to the Trib 17 years ago. Ever since. Columnist Paddleford has been writing for the Trib six times a week, has never missed a working day, and now makes around $30,000 a year. Her hard-working day starts every morning at 5:30 a.m. when she makes out a daily schedule for herself, often beginning with an early-morning stop at the food markets. At her East Side Manhattan apartment (where...
Said the Dominican Foreign Office's announcement: "Complaints received in connection with the personal conduct of Señor Porfirio Rubirosa have led to the cancellation of his appointment." Since his divorce from Doris in 1948, Rubi has become, in the words of his friend and chronicler, Hearst Columnist Cholly Knickerbocker, the "most famous foreign corespondent of the year." Tobacco Heir Richard Reynolds Jr. accused Rubi of "indiscretions" with Mrs. Marianne O'Brien Reynolds (who denied she was "ever in a hotel room" with Rubi, and got a hefty settlement). Socialite Golfer Robert Sweeny, suing...
...Epicmaker Cecil B. DeMille was reportedly considering William (Hopalong Cassidy) Boyd for the role of Moses in his forthcoming remake of The Ten Commandments. Cracked one columnist: "They went thataway, across...