Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...does a British-born Washingtonian become a popular gossip columnist syndicated in about 30 papers across the country? She scrounged a job in the Washington Star's classified ad department and rose through the ranks. Wait. We hear she was fired from that spot...
...more need be said." Cyra McFadden, whose book The Serial lampoons the insecure laid-back life in rich Marin County north of San Francisco, observed: "I had a good time with the kooks. Now I find I'm less and less amused, and more fearful." Usually ebullient Columnist Herb Caen mourned: "What is it about San Francisco...
Anthony Lewis, a lecturer at the Law School and columnist for The New York Times, said yesterday that he "regretted the court's refusal to review the case because I think the New Jersey court's actions were unfair to Mr. Farber and The Times...
...lessons, begun by Marjabelle Young Stewart, a writer on etiquette, has tripled in the past three years. Publishers are rushing books into print to rehabilitate Americans' behavior and bring order to their vast social confusion. Columnist Ann Landers, with her wonderfully brisk "listen-cookie" style, has just come forth with a 1,212-page The Ann Landers Encyclopedia A to Z (abdominal muscles to zoonoses), which gets down to all sorts of nitty-gritty not only about social rituals ("Prince Philip, may I present my laundress Ruth Smith") but also about bedwetting, inverted nipples and nose jobs. Charlotte Ford, Henry...
Washington. D.C., is the nation's capital, but its social rituals are a distinct tradition somewhat apart from the rest of American practice. While the nation may be just returning to some formality, Washington never really abandoned it. Says Betty Beale. Washington Star society columnist since 1945: "We've always been a long-evening-dress kind of town." Jimmy Carter is bringing blue jeans and an occasional touch of country to Washington, but the Government and diplomatic corps have never mothballed their dinner jackets. Still, the abrasions of sexual politics are a distinctly new development in high Government circles. Patricia...