Word: columnized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wistful Harvardmen-turned-servicemen who came back to look around during the War found out soon enough that the place wasn't the same. They looked for a five column daily CRIMSON, and saw in its place the Service News; they looked for the Advocate and found nothing; every-where the once vigorous mass of undergraduate activity was a wraith, stuttering along, supported by a skeletal student body...
...some ways, analogies may be drawn between the present transition from the four-column Service News to the five-column Crimson and the first transition to a five-column Crimson in May 1920. Both changes followed close upon the end of a war, and both were accompanied by a change in type faces...
...Communists look upon democracy as a bourgeois fraud. ... A preference for dictatorship infests their internal organization. . . . The Labor Party has nothing to fear from competition under democratic rules, but the same party which is a negligible opponent in open contest can be a serious menace as a fifth column working from within...
...stormy night Bee was assigned to cover a bicycle race, and his packet of "Belleville Notes" missed the train to St. Louis. Chapin gave his cub correspondent a screaming tongue-lashing over the telephone. The quaking Behymer hired a rig, drove 14 miles to put the column of trivia on Chapin's desk. He got no thanks, and Chapin growled when he okayed Bee's expense account for $3 for the horse & rig, but his job was saved. He still thinks Chapin was a great man, "but very unscrupulous. He made a newspaperman out of me by keeping...
...Stripes who was boss, he up & fired its publications officer, 35-year-old Major Hal Kestler. No Army regular but a country editor who had worked up from buck private, Major Kestler had talked back when the General called for censorship on the paper's. "Mail Call" column. And he had put his foot right in it by going over Lee's head to protest to Washington...