Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York Daily News Columnist John O'Donnell, who yields to few men in his use of savage political invective, last week turned his pen to a matter far from politics. In the midst of the angry nationwide editorial and public uproar over the kidnaping and murder of six-year-old Bobby Greenlease (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Columnist O'Donnell gave his recommendations for the type of punishment needed to fit the crime. Wrote O'Donnell: "Cruel and unusual punishment [for these criminals], as prolonged as medical skill can accomplish, and as ferocious and merciless as tales of ancient...
...with compliments. "It is you who took the lumps out of oatmeal," glowed Wilson & Company Inc.'s President James D. Cooney, "and showed the housewife there can be something to a meal besides broiled meat and fried potatoes. You have been responsible for making eating an adventure." Food Columnist Eleanor Richey Johnston of the Christian Science Monitor knew the compliment was deserved. "It's quite clear," said she, "that a great number of women use us as bibles...
Food Aflame. The food columnist would also rightly take much of the credit for the revolution in the American kitchen-the use of more herbs and spices, cheeses for dessert, "bowling" salads in open view of the guests, barbecuing almost everything. The New York Herald Tribune's Clementine Paddleford. whose Sunday This Week column appears all over the U.S., reported that housewives in her home territory, Manhattan, Kans., are turning to gourmet dishes barely a step behind amateur cooks in her adopted town. "Everybody wants to do flame cooking," said she. "And in Chicago, they want the flame three...
Other food trends noted by Columnist Paddleford: the elimination of an appetizer at dinner parties ("It's no disgrace at all to serve dinner without a first course"); filling guests awaiting dinner with cold soup from a cocktail shaker; casserole dishes that "don't spoil if the crowd gets a little high...
...country. Manhattan's Roxy Theater reported a first-week gross of $264,000. It was the same story in Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Kansas City and San Francisco. Foxmen dreamily talked of total earnings topping Gone With the Wind's record $35 million take. Hollywood Reporter Columnist Mike Connolly wrote: "The Robe just has to be the greatest grosser of all time. It might even outsell the Bible...