Word: columnized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another Konev column plunged nearer to Dresden. Still another surged up the Autobahn toward Berlin's southern gates, in a drive aimed through the Cottbus rail center. Hard fighting raged inside the walled, medieval town of Guben, communications center 65 miles southeast of the Reich's capital. Great clouds of smoke, rising from fires set by British and American airmen, beckoned them...
...Since "they are all aimed at honoring the family," she offered a suggestion of her own: "I think they . . . ought to be lumped together as a sort of 'Family Day' when we could remind people of parents' duties to children and vice versa." In her newspaper column, she offered a quick glimpse at Roosevelt family life: "Certainly in . . . our large family there is never a dearth of conversation! I am not sure that it is always pleasant, but . . . it is always stimulating...
...skeptical tone was characteristic of Dr. Logan Clendening's newspaper column, but there was more than skepticism in the words...
...Clendening wrote such readable copy that 383 newspapers (combined circulation: 25 million) ran his daily "Diet and Health" column. His book, The Human Body, sold almost 500,000 copies. He scoffed at nostrums for lengthening life: "Nothing anybody does to himself after he is born makes more than a few hours' difference. . . ." So he was all for turning diet over to that "very efficient monitor-the appetite." He once shocked the dry state of Kansas, where he taught medicine, by declaring that what the country needed was a good 5? shot of whiskey...
...days later, a second mass-merchandiser of health advice was dead. Dr. Irving S. Cutter, 69, dean emeritus of the Northwestern University Medical School, writer of a "How to Keep Well" column in 50 newspapers (combined circulation: 15 million), died of cancer...