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Word: columnists (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first changes in the new regime, veteran Managing Editor Marvin McCarthy, who did not agree with Field on how the news should be played, resigned. Into his shoes stepped a man with whom Marsh Field sees eye to eye-Milburn P. Akers, 49, Sun-Times political columnist and executive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Marsh Moves In | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...have never yet retracted a word of . . . fair comment," boasted Columnist Westbrook Pegler one day last week. Next day, in the New York Journal-American and 249 other papers carrying his column, he retracted a thousand words of unfair comment. As a legal settlement of several multimillion-dollar libel suits, Pegler published a 98-word apology to Delaware Businessman Abram N. Spanel for implying that he was "a Communist or fellow traveler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Unfair Enough | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

Covering his 25th Kentucky Derby last spring, Hearstling Sportwriter Martene Windsor ("Bill") Corum gratified his readers by picking the race one-two-three-four. Hereafter they will have to depend on someone else for their forecasts. Easygoing, fireplug-shaped Columnist Corum was named last week to succeed the late Colonel Matt Winn (TIME, Oct. 17) as president of the American Turf Association and Churchill Downs, i.e.) impresario of the Derby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Derby Selection | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...Columnist Buckshot Putting aside his bone-handled .45 one day last week, Sheriff Tom Will ("Buckshot") Lane of Wharton County, Tex. reached for a typewriter and a Mimeograph stencil. Then he began to compose his weekly letter to the editor, reporting on law & order in the Lone Star state. In his last installment, Buckshot had told how he was on the track of sewing machines stolen from Wharton County high schools. "Dear Ed," wrote Buckshot. "Thursday afternoon [we] made a drag [of Fort Worth stores] . . . The manager was on the phone when we walked in and he turned pale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Headline of the Week | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...fans into Van Nuys' elaborate, teenagers' Ciro's, the Dri-Nite Club, and making more than pocket money doing it (about $45 a week). By last week, they had spread out to playing one-nighters here & there, for fraternity dances and Hollywood high-lifers such as Columnist Jimmy Fidler. But the surest sign that they were really arriving was the hushed way the fans listened when the boys sat in with jazzbos like Drummer Zutty Singleton out at the Club 47, a Ventura Boulevard bistro where the best of Hollywood's radio and movie musicians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Phuff? | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

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