Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Boston Traveler columnist George Carens has asserted that the Harvard and Yale Athletic Associations stand to make some $25,000 apiece from the television proceeds. Bolles said he was not permitted to release such figures...
...helium 3 (1939); the universally used radar-operated Ground-Controlled Approach System for blind-flying aircraft (1942); a method of producing nuclear reaction without the presence of uranium or million-degree heat (1956). Born in San Francisco, the son of onetime Teacher and Mayo Clinic Physician (and now medical columnist) Walter Alvarez, he studied at the University of Chicago, switched, on the advice of a favorite professor, from chemistry to physics, took his Ph.D. in 1936. In the early years of World War II he worked at M.I.T.'s Radiation Laboratory, moved on to the Manhattan Project...
...York Times Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger, 66, in a Rangoon hospital after being felled by a mild stroke that will probably end his current globe-girdling tour; dyspeptic Columnist Westbrook Pegler, 63, in Boston for an ulcer checkup...
EVERY DOGNIK HAS ITS DAYNIK. Said the story below: "It's a case of the dog wagging the world." Scenting a new trend in Soviet science, the Chicago Sun-Times'?, Columnist Irv Kupcinet declared: "The Russians are raising a new breed of dog-Moongrel." The week's longest reach into the void: when the Russians shoot cows into outer space, it will be the herd shot 'round the world...
Like many of his readers who felt that his nimble style was showing signs of middle-aged spread at Hearst's board, Columnist Caen was delighted at the prospect of returning to the free-and-easy atmosphere of his old paper. Grinned he: "I guess I'm a Chronicle snob...