Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...somehow seems more gigantic, more ridiculous and more murderous than any other real-life figure; if he did not exist, a novelist could scarcely invent him. As it happens, Big Daddy has already inspired what amounts to a budding literary subgenre. In Britain, two small satirical paperbacks by Punch Columnist Alan Coren, The Collected Bulletins of President Idi Amin and its sequel, The Further Bulletins etc., have sold 750,000 copies. Within the past year, at least four fictional thrillers (Target Amin, The Killing of Idi Amin, Excellency and Crossfire) and a play (For the West, by Michael Hastings), dealing...
...York Times, Columnist James Reston reported that some of Lance's Georgia colleagues were "privately and sadly...conceding that he is embarrassing the President and will probably have to go." In an editorial, the Wall Street Journal concluded that the major issue is not the questions the Lance affair raises about Banker Bert but the questions it raises about Jimmy Carter. Said the paper of the President: "The central question is not so much 'Is he honest?' as 'Does he know what he's doing...
Blondie is thought to be the most widely distributed comic strip, with some 1,700 clients worldwide; Jack Anderson, with about 600 clients, is probably the most popular columnist. There is no way of knowing for sure; nor will the syndicates disclose how much they charge newspapers for their wares. The fees are based on circulation; the least a small daily can pay for any feature is probably $5 a week, and the $325 a week the Bulletin (circ. 541,000) was paying for Doonesbury is probably near the top end of the scale. Any feature that does not eventually...
...Berkowitz had no continuing attachment to a mother, he also seemed to have little affinity for women of his own age. According to Columnist Jimmy Breslin, a detective asked Berkowitz: "Do you go with girls...
From a letter sent to Columnist Breslin: "I am a spirit roaming the night. Thirsty, hungry, seldom stopping to rest, anxious to please Sam. I love my work...