Word: columnists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...saying that many man-hours were spent checking and re-checking the piece. While some foresaw Alioto's political doom, others predicted his victory in court and a huge sympathy vote if he runs against Ronald Reagan for Governor in 1970. The only certainty in the affair, wrote Columnist Herb Caen, is that "Look's Annual All-American City Award will not go to San Francisco this year...
...Washington Merry-Go-Round" was carried by more than 650 papers, almost twice as many as any other column, and last week's TIME-Louis Harris Poll showed him to be the best-known columnist in the U.S. The column will continue under the byline of Jack Anderson, a former assistant who has functioned more as an equal partner in the past few years...
...Pearson was caught with his facts in the wastebasket when he charged that President Nixon had tried to dictate a starring role for himself in the Apollo moon-flight ceremonies. Anderson's reconstruction of the tragedy at Chappaquiddick also struck many as more supposition than substance. The columnist wrote that Kennedy at first persuaded his cousin Joseph Gargan to take the blame for Mary Jo Kopechne's death, then changed his mind during the night. Anderson insists that he pried the information, thread by thread, from Kennedy intimates...
...panelists often disagreed. Not about, meaning determination not to do something, puzzled Jacques Barzun, one of the panel's most frequent dissenters. He replied: "I could not have understood its intention or force without your explanation." Writer John Bainbridge called it "mushmouth talk." But Columnist William Zinsser insisted that it has "strength and precision; accept it gladly...
...country's increasing ignorance of Latin was reflected in a question to the panel about media as a singular term and medias as a plural. Taking a swipe at Madison Avenue, Columnist Russell Baker declared: "In Latin, prefer Cicero to BBDO." Asked to rule on erratas as a plural form, Poet Donald Davidson despaired: "To think that we have lived to see the day when such a question can be asked...