Word: columnized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...basis of that rather dubious claim to fame, some 20 impressionable newspapers buy her syndicated wares which are presented in a rather fluffy column to attract what we once called the gum-chewing trade...
Thus, in his first "Publisher's Notebook" column for his newly purchased Chicago Daily News, dynamic John S. Knight launched a blast at civilian complacency in general, at exuberant Elsa Maxwell's recent Hollywood "Victory Party," celebrating the liberation of France, in particular. Concluded Publisher Knight: "I'm afraid it made me retch" (TIME...
Last week in her own syndicated column, "Elsa Maxwell's Party Line," which is printed not by 20 but by 35 U.S. newspapers, the "World's Greatest Hostess" cracked back: "Speak for yourself, John." Declared she: "In ordinary times, such notice . . . would be flattering. Today it reflects something peculiar in the sense of proportion of certain segments of the Fourth Estate. ... I pit my record against yours on the fight for freedom. My party . . . had behind it one single purpose: to bring every influential force in this country into a liberal, intelligent front against reaction, and for both...
Hedda Hopper, gossip-columnist, paid off by filling a day's column for her rival Sidney Skolsky...
...that she had no more money than myself; and that, though she had not had a relation hanged, she had 50 who deserved hanging." The Johnsons settled in London, were happy when they could see "three dinners ahead." Young Johnson wrote poems, blurbs, biographical notes, prize contests, a weekly column ("The Rambler") for the Gentleman's Magazine. He also became one of Britain's first Parliamentary reporters. Lazy and arrogant, he soon began composing Honorable Members' speeches entirely out of his own head ? taking cars "that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it." When a friend...