Word: columnized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With such berserk intelligence J. C. A. B. M. Morton daily fills one-sixtieth of the paper-short Daily Express' total news-and-features space (about 600 inches). He writes his nonsense column under the name "Beachcomber." It is relentlessly clanky, scholarly, satiric-miles over the head of many of its readers...
...will continue his research under the new grant. He was awarded the Henry Russell Shaw Travelling Fellowship for work in Europe after graduation, and was a member of the Society of Fellows at Harvard from 1937 to 1939. Levin is the author of two books, "The Broken Column: A Study of Romantic Hellenism" and "James Joyce: A Critical Introduction," and of many articles...
...Washington Representative Samuel Weiss pressed for hearings on his "Ernie Pyle bill." Correspondent Ernie Pyle, noting that flyers are paid 50% above base pay, had written a column suggesting that foot soldiers be paid extra for combat. Whether or not it was a wise or practical idea,* it was typical of growing appreciation for the infantry...
...their first invasion of Axis soil, the Russians forced the river crossing at several points and advanced along a 165-mile front. One column was reported within 200 miles of Bucharest and the valuable Ploesti oilfields. Moscow newspapers proudly printed dispatches datelined "Across the Border," although Moscow already had disavowed any plans of conquest...
...buck-passing, ducking, bobbing and weaving. The cartoonist's pen was held by Clarence Daniel Batchelor, but the hand that guides the pen is Publisher Patterson's. On the day Batchelor drew the cartoon the Daily News: 1) covered the world's battlefronts in 90¾ column inches of type; 2) devoted 184¼ in. to six crime and sex stories. To the Daily News (circ. 2,000,000), Russia was worth 34¾ in., the Lonergan trial 55 in. The entire Pacific war theater rated 3 in., the Major Horace E. Dodge divorce case...