Word: columnists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...column is looking for a swing columnist and a theatre expert for its "From the Pit" department. So, if you'd like to chew the rag with the Count, the Duke and the rest of the aristocracy and point out Benny Goodman's latest solid records to Harvard's jazz fans, or write penetrating studies of the theatre, come in and talk it over through the team of a can of beer...
...Press, New York; Erwin W. Kieckhefer, Country Editor, Minneapolis Star-Journal; Kenneth F. McCormick, Reporter, Detroit Free Press; Arthur B. Musgrave, Copy Editor, Houston Post; Fred W. Neal, Washington correspondent, Wall Street Journal; Robert Okin, Reporter and rewrite man, Associated Press, New York; Oren M. Stephens, Sunday editor and columnist, Arkansas Democrat, Little Rock, Arkansas; and William A. Townes, Assistant City Editor, Cleveland Press...
...Columnist George Fielding Eliot called for a civilized reprisal. His idea was to warn Germany by radio that one of ten named villages would be destroyed from the air, then to destroy one of the ten. He thought the trouble the Germans would have in evacuating ten villages would have a sobering effect; or, if they did not evacuate, that their own people would make trouble...
...Class 1-A draft registrants had flunked the Army's literacy test (TIME, June 8). Nodding gravely, Columbia University's Professor Emeritus William C. Bagley, editor of School and Society, pronounced the figures "deplorable and discouraging." But the New York Times's silver-lined Columnist Simeon Strunsky observed that it was not as bad as all that: the Army had simply stiffened the literacy test, on the theory that "what is good enough for peacetime intelligence is not good enough for the Army...
...Press, New York; Erwin W. Kieckhefer, Country Editor, Minneapolis Star-Journal; Kenneth F. McCormick, Reporter, Detroit Free Press; Arthur B. Musgrave, Copy Editor, Houston Post; Fred W. Neal, Washington correspondent, Wall Street Journal; Robert Okin, Reporter and rewrite man, Associated Press, New York; Oren M. Stephens, Sunday editor and columnist, Arkansas Deocrat, Little Rock, Arkansas; and William A. Townes, Assistant City Editor, Cleveland Press...