Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...editor of TIME. Many LIFE staffers, including Editor Thomas Griffith, began their careers at TIME. In turn, the TIME staff has benefited from many LIFE graduates, including Senior Editors Timothy Foote and Leon Jaroff. Hugh Sidey served simultaneously as TIME's Washington bureau chief and a prized LIFE columnist. For years the correspondents of the TIME-LIFE News Service worked for both publications, sharing offices throughout the world and drawing upon the same support facilities. Inevitably they laughed together, sometimes suffered together and always shared the professional pride of working for the top publications in their field...
...political and cultural journalism-to say nothing of his public feuding. There was that scrap with Robert Kennedy, the nasty split with stepsister Jacqueline Onassis. Then Vidal endured an expensive lawsuit by William F. Buckley Jr. that stemmed from a joint TV appearance in which Vidal called the conservative columnist a "crypto-Nazi...
...pipe bender in a Cicero, Ill., shop. Wielding a 16-lb. sledgehammer, the workman packs sand into lengths of straight pipe that are then heated and bent with a winch. When he isn't twisting hot metal, LaVelle is sweating over pencil and paper as the newest regular columnist in the Chicago Tribune stable...
...cigar-chomping newspaper tradition. He quotes Nietzsche and reads Walt Whitman and Jonathan Swift. He bristles with ideas but belittles intellectuals. He declines to romanticize the workingman's life, offering instead a knowing view of the restive blue-collar world-a world that he believes the typical newspaper columnist cannot understand...
JAMES BEARD, syndicated newspaper food columnist and author of The James Beard Cookbook, James Beard's American Cookery, Cook It Outdoors and Menus for Entertaining...