Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nearly ten years, TIME PRESIDENT ROY LARSEN and I have been hosts at a party for members of the American Newspaper Publishers Association attending the annual A.N.P.A. meeting in New York (see Publishers v. Trustbusters in PRESS). Among 300 eminent guests last week was Hollywood Columnist HEDDA HOPPER. With her came MARILYN MONROE, who makes a thriving business of publishing Miss Monroe. Her special A.N.P.A. edition was an obvious hit. Chatting with her, publishers beamed. Miss Monroe, as she moved among TIME'S guests, paused here and there before a statesman of the press to bestow her own version...
...background about great poets of the past, Poet-Anthologist Louis Untermeyer was in a gloomy mood about the prospects for U.S. poets of the present. "There are only one or two poets, Robert Frost and possibly Ogden Nash, who are making a living out of it," Untermeyer complained to Columnist Art Buchwald. "The rest of us have to teach, write books, compose anthologies ... A poet can't even starve in a garret these days because garrets now are too expensive . . . There is less hospitality for a poet than there ever has been before. The mediums for entertainment...
...baseball journalists of this town, sometimes called New York, have gone the way of all flash," complained the Morning Telegraph's Columnist Barney Nagler. He had a point. The season was less than a week old and the writers were already reporting everything in terms of records. Example: Dodger Carl Furillo hit four home runs in his first three games and a wire service touted him as "11 games ahead of Babe Ruth's record 1927 home-run pace." "And so it goes," moaned Columnist Nagler, "ad boredom...
...Thanks to Turf Columnist Evan Shipman's complaint, New York's Metropolitan Jockey Club belatedly arranged to televise its last race of the spring meeting: the $111,700 mile-and-a-furlong Wood Memorial. And thanks to the desperate courage of Belair Stud's big bay colt, Nashua, closing from behind in the final jump to nip Mrs. John W. Galbreath's Summer Tan by a neck, millions of televiewers saw a thriller...
...Columnist-turned-Author Ruark (Horn of the Hunter, Grenadine Etching) is not likely to mind. Months before his bloody, big novel of Kenya's Mau Mau rising was due in bookstores. Hollywood paid a reported...