Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Columnist Drew Pearson, whose inside stories sometimes have the facts wrong side out, had a sizzling inside story early this month for his readers in 600 papers. Wrote Pearson: "Here is some of the vitally important backstage byplay which took place immediately after the President was stricken in Denver." The story: Vice President Nixon had attempted "to take over the reins of Government" on the night of Sept...
Nearly six years after he first brought a libel suit against Hearst Columnist Westbrook Pegler, former War Correspondent Quentin Reynolds last week got ready to collect. The U.S. Supreme Court ended the long legal battle by refusing to review a New York federal jury's $175,001 award to Reynolds (TIME, July 5, 1954 et seq.), after Pegler branded him a nudist and coward...
...last week in New York, a newspaper columnist, bill Wallace, who writes in the World-Telegram and Sun, said Meigs was out-played against Cornell by a sophomore named Chris Hatton. This sharp criticism against the versatile Meigs was tantamount to calling McCarthy a Communist as far as the Crimson team was concerned...
...Minister of Economy Jorge Arenales had set up a quota system that virtually handed an import monopoly to a group of businessmen represented by his own former law partner. Arenales tried to defend his move as an encouragement for growing and milling wheat locally. But the press was unconvinced. Columnist José Alfredo Palmieri sighed: "Corn, beans, and now flour-the best profits are always made on hunger . . . Food speculation hands the Communists all the arguments...
...years later, Ed and Sylvia were married in the rectory of a Roman Catholic Church in West Orange, N.J. Sylvia has remained a Jew, but their daughter Betty has been raised a Catholic. Meanwhile, Winchell left the Graphic for the Daily Mirror, and Louis Sobol replaced him as Broadway columnist. When Sobol joined the Journal-American, Sports Editor Sullivan inherited the Broadway assignment. "I didn't want the job, but it was either take it or be fired. I took it, but determined never to rap anyone the way Winchell does. I don't think I have...