Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...season in twelve years. Three nights later, Ike wined & dined 21 prominent men at the seventh of his stag dinners for U.S. leaders-and landed in a hassle with an angry newshen who thought he was being unfair to women. At his press conference, the President was confronted by Columnist Doris Fleeson, who wanted to know why he hadn't invited any prominent women to dinner. "How do you square that with your anti-discrimination program?" she demanded. Well, said Ike, he had tried to give two or three dinners for women, but he had been told that...
...What would be the reaction of Canadians," asked a Toronto Globe and Mail columnist last week, "if students at the University of Wisconsin draped themselves like the Ku Klux Klan, formed a procession and hanged and burned an effigy of Premier Leslie Frost. Prime Minister St. Laurent or George Drew...
While filling in for Columnist Bennett Cerf in the Saturday Review, Novelist Laura (Gentleman's Agreement) Hobson discovered that she "adored having a column." Writer Hobson confessed her new passion to the editor of Hearst's Good Housekeeping, who signed her to do nine columns a year. When Columnist Inez Robb of Hearst's International News Service left, by mutual consent, to join Scripps-Howard and United Feature syndicate a fortnight ago, I.N.S. knew just where to turn. Beginning next week, Laura Hobson will do five columns a week for I.N.S. and its clients, titled "Assignment America...
...TIME Inc.'s promotion department as a writer in 1934, left in 1940 and began devoting full time to writing fiction. Of her four novels and many short stories, the most successful has been Gentleman's Agreement, which sold more than 1,600,000 copies. As a columnist, Novelist Hobson is still not sure what she will write. But she is sure that she is "not going to be Mrs. Political Pundit...
Along with Columnist Inez Robb, Scripps-Howard last week announced another new hand: New York Herald Tribune Washington Correspondent Jack Steele, who joined the Scripps-Howard staff. Steele. who in 1949 won several prizes for his series on the five-percenter scandals, was frequently mentioned as the successor to the late Bert Andrews to head the Trib's Washington bureau. But when the paper named the Christian Science Monitor's Roscoe Drummond (TiME, Sept. 21), Steele took Scripps-Howard's offer to join its Washington staff...