Word: columnized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...competing with herself, she merged them into the profitable La Salle News-Tribune (circ. 15,674). Peter kept an eye on the business side because, says Bazy, "I never come closer than three zeros on any figures." She ran the nine-man editorial staff and wrote a daily column of chitchat about her two children, her 14-room house, her favorite philanthropies and her blooded Arabian horses. Says Bazy: "You meet a lot of interesting people breeding Arabian horses." A fervent Republican, Bazy organized the 1948 "Twenties for Taft" clubs, kept the News-Tribune toeing the GOParty line...
Punchy Prose. Clifton (Information Please) Fadiman thought that an impressive-and depressing-fact about the past 25 years was the decline in reader "attention." Readers refused to read anything except "the shortened paragraph, the carefully measured column, the 'punchy' sentence." The whole thing had reached its climax, he thought, in the new Cowles-published Quick-"a news digest of news digests." Wrote he: "One can easily imagine a digest of Quick (Quicker) and finally one of Quicker (Quickest). From Quickest to the nonreading of the news seems a logical next step...
...nearly 14 years, Scoopy, a tiger-striped torn, had made his home and office in an In box on the desk of Publisher Isabel Bryan, a seventyish spinster, in the cluttered basement office of the Villager. Scoopy's byline and photograph had graced a widely read column of jottings and musings ("Scoopy Mewses") on the editorial page. Artists painted Scoopy's portrait, photographers snapped him, the Christian Science Monitor sang his praises...
...copy of the Saturday Review of Literature, the syndicate found that Canby had indeed lauded the "homely genius" of Peg's style, had even called him "that most hard-hitting and expressive of contemporary American journalists," and had gone on to quote two paragraphs from a Pegler column. The syndicate promptly slapped Canby's encomium into its ad. Just as promptly, Canby objected: "This [article] has been quoted without my permission and without the permission of the Saturday Review, where it is copyrighted...
Spiritual v. Temporal. Following the first reply in her newspaper column, Eleanor Roosevelt made public an answering letter to the cardinal...