Word: columnists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...going to divorce Porfirio Rubirosa (who used to be Dominican charge d'affaires in Vichy) to marry her third, Actor Pierre Louis. When Husband Porfirio paid her a visit, "I made known to him my intention . . ." said she. "He accepted like a gentle-man." Plump, greying Columnist Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., 48, whose first, second and third marriages lasted, respectively", seven, three and six years, was now separated, after something less than six months, from beauteous Maria Feliza Pablos, 29-year-old grandniece of Mexico's late President Porfirio Diaz...
...Denver, Columnist Randolph Churchill, who had attracted attention to himself by reporting a bathroom conversation with a plumber (TIME, Feb. 10), now bravely faced a platform duel with a carpenter. From New Jersey the carpenter wired a challenge to a "debate on the merits of the British Empire." Winston's son referred the matter to his lecture manager...
...businesslike Chicago Journal of Commerce ("All the News a Busy Man Has Time to Read") ordinarily gets few letters from its busy readers. But last week the fan mail was steadily trickling in, as it does every time the Journal's professional-bumpkin columnist, Chet Shafer, 59, writes his annual "winter piece." A South Bend pipefitter called it "one of the finest pieces of prose I have ever seen." An attorney on Chicago's La Salle Street: "You nearly break a country boy's heart...
...Columnist Shafer, a wise man in his way, explained: "Those successful men like to read about unsuccessful folks whose lives ain't cluttered up." For eleven years the Journal has been tucking away Chet Shafer's daily two or three inches of bucolic "Three Rivers Doings" at the end of its editorials. One week in 1938 an editorial saboteur left it out. Hundreds of businessmen, from Detroit to Omaha, promptly wired, phoned and wrote angry protests. "Three Rivers Doings" has been running ever since...
Even a Shakespeare-or a Norman Corwin-might shrink from the task of putting Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Bernard Baruch and Harry Hopkins into a room together and making them converse on Plato, Thomas Jefferson, tariffs and Joseph Stalin. But Columnist ("We, the People") Jay Franklin has done precisely that...