Word: columnists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Wallace Irwin, 83, popular humorist of a generation ago, syndicated newspaper columnist and magazine writer, creator of Hashimura Togo and his Letters of a Japanese Schoolboy, light versifier (The Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum), novelist (Seed of the Sun, Lew Tyler's Wives); in Southern Pines...
Irate Denial. According to some press accounts, the U.S. and Britain could not agree on what to do in the event of a new Berlin blockade. Columnist Joseph Alsop's declaration that the British were reneging on the idea of sending an armored column through to Berlin, even as a last resort, brought British Ambassador to Washington Sir Harold Caccia hustling into the State Department with a hard denial that Britain had done any such thing. Soviet radar jamming devices now all but rule out an easy repetition of the electronics-backed Berlin airlift, but the British feel that...
...favorite game of his was to sit across the table from some Spartan friend, trading shin kicks and guzzling highballs to numb the pain-he was busy beefing up the Trib's sports section, with a canny eye for talent. It was Coach Woodward who hired Sports Columnist Red Smith away from the Philadelphia Record in 1945. "I was also an awful popoff," said Woodward...
...attractive, pro wrestling boomed. Desperate for new acts, new gimmicks, promoters began to push such gaudy huskies as "Gorgeous George," a marcelled, peroxide blond who made the sham slaughter seem even more ridiculous by his coy shenanigans in the ring and out. "The queens are passe now," says Columnist Jimmy Cannon, but wrestlers are still getting away with their hammy histrionics, still faking pain, anguish and angry violence with steady success...
Died. Meyer Berger, 60, topflight U.S. reporter, rewriteman, columnist ("About New York") for the New York Times, his paper's choice to write major stories from the conviction of Al Capone to the sinking of the Andrea Doria, winner of a Pulitzer Prize (1950); after a stroke; in Manhattan...