Word: columnized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...find Lucia Ladanca's name in TIME'S May 30 issue, you had to read most of the way through a seven-column Foreign News story on Italy. At that point the story said: "The most disturbing economic fact of [Premier Alcide] de Gasperi's Italy is the almost hopeless poverty of such people as hunchbacked Lucia Ladanca, a Potenza housewife who lives with her tuberculous husband and eight-year-old son Bruno in a fetid tenement not far from well-stocked stores...
Last January, Hearst's King Features Syndicate decided to run an advertisement in Editor & Publisher for Westbrook Pegler's column. It began digging around for quotable puffs, had trouble finding any. Few people had ever said anything good about Pegler, who so seldom has anything good to say about anyone else. Finally, at the syndicate's prodding, Pegler remembered that "an old geezer named 'Seidlitz"-meaning, as everybody knew, of course, Literary Critic Henry Seidel Canby-had once cast him a few pearls of praise...
...almost offhand way, Eleanor Roosevelt put her head in the lion's mouth. In her column "My Day," she noted that Francis Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop of New York, thought that Catholic schools should have a share in federal funds for education. Mrs. Roosevelt disagreed...
Then Forrest Warren wrote his last column, marked it "hold for release," sent it to the Journal to be run when he died. It ran last week. Across Page One, the Journal spread Forrest Warren's goodbye and "God bless you" to his San Diego friends, who had taught him, he wrote, that "people are still interested in helping their neighbors." Two days later in Balboa Park, 2,000 friends attended his funeral. As Forrest Warren had requested, the preacher kept his remarks brief...
...Roman Catholic Church in the U.S., 1948 was a record year. The new, enlarged edition (1,008 three-column pages) of the Official Catholic Directory shows that there are now 26,718,343 Roman Catholics in the U.S. (including Alaska and the Hawaiian Islands)-a 642,646 increase over 1947. A record of 117,130 converts was made last year...