Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boston Traveler's Columnist Neal O'Hara is not a seeker after journalistic dynamite; his daily feature, "Take It From Me," is an innocuous collection of jokes, quizzes, fragments of news and "Thoughts While Shaving," and it is published on the comic page. O'Hara said he had no intention of stirring up a hornet's nest when he reflected (while shaving) last month that both Harvard's newly elected President Nathan Marsh Pusey and Senator Joe McCarthy live in the town of Appleton, Wis. (seat of Lawrence College, which Pusey has served as president...
...Columnist Walter Winchell, who says he likes nothing better than "to step into the ring" to fight, is a hard man to crowd into a corner. He jabs so fast, moves so nimbly, that he seldom presents his numerous opponents with a solid target for counterblows. But last week, at the pre-trial examination in a $1,500,000 libel suit brought against him by the New York Post and its editor, James A. Wechsler, Winchell's footwork was not quite fancy enough. Witness Winchell, who has broadly implied that the Post and its editor are proCommunist, was drawn...
...Manhattan for a quick taste of town life before hunting elephants in Africa, Pulitzer Prizewinning Novelist Ernest (The Old Man and the Sea) Hemingway made copy for Columnist Leonard Lyons merely by talking like Hemingway. ". . . On the train to New York he had sneezed -and his belt burst. He bought a new one, 40 waist. 'Used to be 48 chest, 38 waist,' he said. He bought a pistol: 'Good around camp for small game, friends and intruders.' . . . [Restaurateur] Toots Shor told of Hemingway and Hugh Casey, the late Dodger pitcher, trading blows while standing...
Trade Note. In Baltimore, a panhandler confided to News-Post Columnist Louis Azrael the secret of his success: "The best approach . . . is to tell people I want some money for a drink. That gets sympathy, even when I don't really want a drink...
...Later she told newsmen that she loved the British weather. "The public was as wet as I, and we were both enjoying ourselves . . . Oh, it was marvelous. The greatest day ever." Wrote the London Daily Telegraph: "Few visitors can ever have endeared themselves so widely and so speedily." Pleaded Columnist Nat Gubbins in the Sunday Express...