Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trouble," i.e., collective-bargaining demands, the firms were having with a United Electrical Workers local. Ahead of Dio loomed further trials on charges of 1) extorting $11,500 from two New York City merchants,, 2) evading federal income taxes, and 3) plotting the 1956 acid-blinding of Manhattan Labor Columnist Victor Riesel...
Still young enough at 33 to play the juvenile, Cinemactor Marlon Brando, no longer a delinquent, tried to explain to New York Herald Tribune Columnist Joe Hyams why he has taken the marbles out of his mouth, untilted his pelvis and abandoned the T-shirt and sneakers as evening dress: "I've found you have to make a choice of whether you want to be a member of organized society or not. If so, you must make certain concessions. For example, in my business I am obliged to be cooperative, which includes talking to people...
...began when the New York Herald Tribune's fun-loving, Paris-based Columnist Art Buchwald put an ad into the famed agony column of London's Times: "Would like to hear from people who dislike Americans and their reasons why. Please write Box R. 543." The ad produced not only 209 replies from as far away as California and Iraq and two columns for Buchwald,* but a rash of new ads putting Anglo-American relations to the test on both sides of the Atlantic...
Archaic Britons. Meantime still another ad began appearing in newspapers in U.S. cities: "Student of Anglo-American relations is anxious to know what qualities are most disliked in the British . . ." It proved to be the work of the London Daily Mirror's waspish Columnist Cassandra (William Connor), who could hardly wait to return from his vacation to see what the postman had brought. One of the papers carrying his ad, the Washington Post and Times Herald, published its own reply: "The British are archaic. They cling to worn-out practices. They profess to see virtue in . . . training for public...
Sweet Smell of Success. A nauseous whiff of the rat-tat-tattling of a megalomaniacal Broadway columnist and his fawning hatchetman; with Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis cracking whiplash dialogue (TIME, June...