Word: columnist
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Died. John Chapman, 71, drama critic of the New York Daily News since 1943; of cancer; in Westport, Conn. The son of Poet Arthur Chapman (Out Where the West Begins), John was a photographer in Paris, a newsroom editor and a Hollywood columnist before he started reviewing Broadway productions for the News. Unabashedly proud of his nickname-"Old Frostface"-Chapman once claimed that despite the News's huge daily circulation (now more than 2,000,000), he wrote for a tiny audience: "A tough...
...Columnist Art Buchwald hit upon his formulation after noticing that most economic indicators are pointing up. "More people are starting to travel on the airlines, which is a very good thing." he wrote last week. "But if things keep getting better, the airports won't be able to handle the traffic, the planes will be overbooked, luggage will be lost and the airlines will have a very good economic year...
Wilson's Amateur Democrat was a study of amateurs in three American cities. In 1968 America experienced the nationalization of amateur politics on the left. Faced with a war they opposed, various elements on the left challenged the President. They ignored the advice of the columnist and went to work for Eugene McCarthy. The Minnesota Senator and former Benedictine novice did far better than anyone thought he would, and soon Robert Kennedy joined the race. Both McCarthy and Kennedy built their campaigns on opposition to "things as they are" and asked for voter support for guaranteed job programs, guaranteed annual...
What does Actress Paulette Goddard smell like? She informed Columnist Eugenia Sheppard that her late husband, Novelist Erich Maria Remarque, had told her, "You smell like pencil shavings...
...analyzing the few experiences he deals with--be they artworks or political powerplays--which contain a grain of original truth in their reflection of contemporary life-trials. Even when reminiscing on his own childhood sports career, Sheed is not concerned with the sweaty playing-field grit of the sports columnist, or the heroicizing rhetoric of Mailer's "King of the Hill." Instead, he examines the extent to which sports made him, an English boy, into an American. He concludes that the socializing effects of the competitions were limited. Everything changes off the field...