Word: columnized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Make it a column of threes, gentlemen; there's room enough for everybody...
...been seeking success since her first short story was published in a Florida newspaper when she was an awkward nine-year-old. She went on to study law, worked as a newspaper reporter, wrote a sports column for the Tampa Tribune. In 1938 she moved to New York, nibbled at radio crumbs, wrote pulp fiction. She hit the big time last year when she sold her program idea to Mutual...
...masterpiece unattributed. Last week, a 300-page abridgement of Vasari's Lives (edited by Betty Burroughs; Simon & Schuster; $3.75) let laymen in on some brisk reading that had previously been buried in a mass of scholarly detail. The new Lives were almost as easy going as a gossip column, and for much the same reason. Sample...
...first column under the new banner, Frank Owen complained about the postwar "degeneration of behavior" in Great Britain. Wrote...
...next column, the unpredictable Frank Owen felt better already. He had spent two days in the Daily Mail morgue, reading up on what happened after World War I. Wrote he: "... I cheer up too when I reflect that it's all happened before . . . dear food, scarce food, few clothes, no beer, high taxes, too many forms to fill up, not enough homes to live in, Germany, a crime wave, rising cost of living, falling output of goods, riots in India and Egypt. Everyone said: 'The country's going to the dogs.' Why, this is almost where...