Word: columnists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fiorello LaGuardia, old-scold columnist for 1) PM, 2) Sachs Quality Stores, tired of having his Sachs column rejected by Manhattan papers,* wrote something different, prayed in print: "I hope no fault will be found with it." Bulk of his column: Little Bopeep, Sing a Song of Sixpence, three other nursery favorites. That got printed-except by the Daily News...
Peterborough, columnist of the London Daily Telegraph, quoted Hamlet: "I eat the air, promise-crammed...
...staff of the Pacific Stars and Stripes had been fighting its own little war-mostly against its superior officers. In January the G.I.s publicly accused the "brass" of trying to muzzle their Tokyo daily. A month later Sergeant Kenneth Pettus, the managing editor, and Corporal Barnard Rubin, the star columnist, were fired from.the paper, ordered to Okinawa for reassignment. Explained an officer: the two had flunked a "loyalty check...
...Columnist Graves was prone to quote such back-pats from admirers as this one: "Silver has its Bryan, the League of Nations its Wilson, the sensible free speech has you. ... All hail to the champion of freedom." To which Columnist Graves generously responded, in print: "All hail to you, too, Mr. Purdy...
...Next day Columnist Graves followed this letter with another: he was going on a two-week lecture tour and if the column was really to be moved, he would "hand you my resignation before I do go. . . . If I am relegated to an obscure position . . . I shall be so lost to view that gradually I shall lose my present hold. ... It will be far better from my point of view to leave . . . when my leaving will create the biggest protest and be most widely noted...