Word: columnists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nagging economic problems. Minister José Maria Whitaker is a pink-cheeked, white-mustached. 76-year-old Sāo Paulo banker with 13 children, 68 grandchildren, five great-grandchildren. Brazilians took heart from his promise to avoid "hasty solutions," and from his reputation as a hardheaded financier. A columnist called the appointment "an unexpected miracle," and the free-market cruzeiro climbed from 86 per dollar to 80, about where it stood on the eve of the earthquake...
...Reid has been moving closer and closer to the job he calls the "chief executive officer" of the Trib ever since he went to work summers as a photographer on the paper. From the photo staff he went on at the paper to become a mail clerk, reporter and columnist, writing a weekly column ("The Red Underground"). But he made his biggest mark on the business side. Shipped to Paris two years ago to shore up the Trib's Paris edition, he revamped the budget, got more ads and circulation and put it handsomely in the black...
...this great hall will be dead ten years from now. if statistics run their normal course. There may not be time for another call like this." Again, hundreds came forward. Most of Scotland's papers praised Billy to the skies. There were some scornful dissenters (wrote a columnist in the Evening News: "The final scene nauseated me."). But night after night the people in Glasgow thronged to hear Billy Graham speak, because he told them, and they believed him: "More people are praying for Glasgow tonight than have ever prayed for any city in the history of the church...
...eager beaver is What's My Line?'s Dorothy Kilgallen, who often seems to have patterned her technique on that of tenacious Lawrence Spivak of Meet the Press. Hearst-Columnist Kilgallen is distinguished by her no-nonsense approach and her relentless slicing away of extraneous issues in solving such epic equations as whether a contestant is a rabbit poacher or a gravedigger by trade. Says Moderator John Daly admiringly: "Dottie follows a logical, syllogistic construction: she is more of a technician and a scientist in her approach." The only other quizzer to come close to equaling her eager...
...come into the market now, as the New York Stock Exchange has been doing, is "rather risky"? Galbraith agreed. In fact, said he, stock margins should be raised from the current 60% to 100%, to discourage new investors. After Galbraith finished, the New York Journal-American's Financial Columnist Leslie Gould suggested a headline to describe the effects of his testimony: EGGHEAD SCRAMBLES MARKET...