Word: columnized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Waugh's comrades-in-arms were not favorably impressed by his nonchalance: they expected him to draw enemy bombs. His good friend and commanding officer Major Randolph Churchill (an old-style aristocrat who now writes a column for United Feature Syndicate) cried something to the effect that this was not the Battle of Agincourt. Waugh forsook his lonely eminence, in icy rage removed his coat. "It was not your rudeness I minded," he explained to Major Churchill, "it was your cowardice that surprised...
Winston Churchill had another divorce in the family-the second in 1945.* Year's first had been Daughter Sarah's from Comedian Vic Oliver. Now column-writing Son Randolph was dropped by the former Pamela Digby, after six years, one son. Said she: 1) he had been rude to her in public; 2) had once walked out in the middle of the night; 3) had spent evenings at the officers' mess; 4) had told her he was "fed up"; 5) had "seemed to prefer a bachelor's existence." She got custody of five-year-old Winston...
...Round." Every so often, during the war, Drew would write a letter to Allen-for all the 18,000,000 readers to see. What Pearson did not tell the readers is that when Allen went to war, Pearson offered him what Allen considered so small a share of their column's income that Allen turned it down in a blast of ex-cavalryman's rage...
...Nobody Knows . . ." The Friend observatory is as practical as any backyard astronomer could wish. The supporting base is a perpendicular concrete column, 16 feet long, anchored in bedrock eight feet below the surface on the highest hill of the orange grove. To this block is bolted the large telescope - a 16-in. reflector in a 12-ft. galvanized iron tube. On the lower side are ascension and declination meters and counterbalance weights. The observatory is roofless. A square wooden platform provides working space. The lenses were ground in a small Escondido garage-workshop...
...Book man, in Harper's and the New Yorker, U.S. readers have watched her feminine forays into the masculine world of journalism. Three months ago she reported Lord Haw-Haw's trial in a memorable piece for the New Yorker. Last week, in a 13-column essay in the same magazine, Reporter West covered the eight-minute trial of The Crown v. John Amery, traitor. Her piece showed up the run-of-the-mine court reporter as the deadline-hurried, space-confined newsman he generally...