Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Person to Person (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Ed Murrow interviews Actress Kim Novak, Columnist Leonard Lyons...
...offensive, insolent, contemptuous, defamatory, opprobrious language . . . impugned the motives, actions and conduct of the officers and directors of the newspaper and have otherwise attacked their probity and imputed improper purposes to them . . . you are hereby dismissed." It was signed "Roger Ferger," publisher of the Enquirer. Also fired by Ferger: Columnist James H. Ratliff Jr., who spearheaded the 1952 drive in which Enquirer employees raised the cash to take over their own paper...
Wrote Ulises Carbó, columnist for Prensa Libra: "The picture Guys and Dolls pictures Havana as a mecca for vice. It even goes to the extreme of presenting an honest missionary (Jean Simmons) who, influenced by what she sees here, gets drunk and passes out on a strange potion from a coconut shell in the midst of an atmosphere of scandal and prostitution." Luis Conte Aguero, Diario Nacional columnist, harking back to an earlier assault on Havana's morals, put it differently: "There is a lot of truth in the story, but there are also a lot of false...
...With the Hollywood première becoming gaudier every year, Los Angeles Columnist Kendis Rochlen handed out some tongue-in-cheek tips to première-goers. Two important rules: never show up on time ("Gauge your timing according to your prestige; no self-respecting big star would dream of showing up by 8:30"), and provide "double insurance" ("By accidentally dropping a glove or handkerchief and starting to lean over to pick it up, a star can often put her best features forward for the photographers...
Ratliff was fired as an officer (but not as a columnist and board member) by the company board. It is headed by 61-year-old Roger Ferger, who held the same top job under the old regime, the McLean estate, and was also a key figure in the paper's purchase by its employees. Ratliff himself gave the most outspoken statement of the board's reasons: "They say I was fired for 'disloyalty, conspiracy to undermine normal channels, attempts to stampede and coerce, persistently fomenting discord . . .' I deny these charges." Instead, the veteran newsman accused...