Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...overlooking the Adriatic Sea. To her astonishment, recalled Gypsy, deadpan, the rider and his passenger high-tailed it for the woods, abandoning their machine. Later Gypsy asked a Yugoslav official why the wild ones had acted so wildly. His explanation (sounding almost as if it had been composed by Columnist Leonard Lyons): "It is well known that there are only two Rolls-Royces in the whole of Yugoslavia, and both belong to Marshal...
...civil-rights ploy undiscovered until past the parliamentary deadline for amendments, he could then reveal its presence and split the ranks of Southern conservatives. Craftily, Rayburn's strategists laid a booby trap for Southerners who were routinely hunting for civil-rights hookers by leaking a phony tip to Columnist Drew Pearson that the hooker was in Section 102. Pearson dutifully printed the news, and the Southerners who rushed to read that section soon relaxed-no civil-rights stuff there...
...days later, at Le Touquet, he lost heavily again, this time ironically playing beside an American businessman on vacation-Ralph Thomas Reed, president of American Express Co. Reed was not the only one who wondered at the recklessness of the mysteriously affluent Italian. A Parisian gossip columnist wrote an item about "a young Italian, Mr. Grassi, who never bets less than one million francs at a time at roulette," and makes the casino manager "shudder...
Stocks, Bonds & Buchwald. British-born Eric Hawkins, who hired on as a copyreader in 1915 after abandoning a vain ambition to box, played up the New York markets, banking on the hunch that this was "must" reading to tourists. This and Columnist Art Buchwald, who walked in one day ten years ago and asked for a job, are the Trib's two most popular features. Roaming the Continent's nightclubs and halls of state, Buchwald gradually assumed the same institutional quality as his employer; his 1953 column explaining Thanksgiving Day to the Trib's 13,000 French...
What Bing had done, Gary did not specify. His remarks only served as reminders that Bing, too, had talked freely and foolishly about himself and his boys a few months before. He had failed as a father, Bing confessed to a Hollywood columnist. Somehow the strict discipline, the skimpy allowances, and long hours of hard ranch work to which he subjected his boys had not had the desired effect. They were forever getting into scrapes; even the Army had not made disciplined men of them. "They won't listen to me," Bing complained, "and it burns me up." Even...