Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...baseball game has become unimportant). The daily press threw new energy and new talent into exploring the offbeat byways of color and anecdote as well as the lofty heights of analysis and interpretation. Ironically, some of the best punditry came not from Chicago but from Washington, where Columnist Walter Lippmann watched the convention on TV. Some of the sidebars ran to outlandish trivia, e.g., the contents of Adlai Stevenson's laundry bag, but some of it reached new levels of excellence. For entertainment, few reporters could equal the New York Herald Tribune's wisecracking Sports Columnist Red Smith...
After four months of tireless investigation, the law last week finally pointed its finger at the acid thrower who blinded Labor Columnist Victor Riesel (TIME. April 16). The assailant, a 22-year-old hoodlum named Abraham Telvi, who got $1,000 for the brutal job, had already come to crude, ironic justice: he was the victim of a gangland murder triggered by his own hand. But the FBI seized two accomplices linked to labor rackets in New York's garment industry and put together this outline of the crime...
Died. Grove Hiram Patterson, 74, editor (since 1926) of the Toledo Blade (circ. 194,780), home-folksy columnist ("Way of the World") and author (I Like People), a founder of the American Society of Newspaper Editors; of a heart attack; in Toledo...
Instead, he set out to discover America. For a year he edited scholarly tracts for the New York Academy of Sciences, then went west to review books for the San Francisco Argonaut, a weekly magazine of opinion. By 1952, he was a reporter and columnist for the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat, and a part-time correspondent for TIME. Two years later he returned east to work first for LIFE, then for TIME. As a TIME Business writer, he has done two other cover stories, Toymaker Louis Marx (TIME. Dec. 12) and American Express' President Reed (TIME, April 9), plus...
...heartthrobs, not laughs). Once, seven years ago, she walked uninvited into the stateroom of a man she had just met on shipboard. Faithful listeners were scandalized. Helen is now allowed to wear tight skirts and low-cut gowns, but she neither smokes nor drinks. Helen's enemy, Gossip Columnist Daisy Parker, drinks a "martini on the rocks," always specifying, "and no olive"-thus conclusively demonstrating her low moral stature...