Word: columnized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...risk of being called a blankety-blank purist, I have changed the name of this column from "Swing" to "Jazz." As one of my many belated acts, I hope to remove the stigma of a name which has, of late, become thoroughly unfitting to the contents...
Last week Senator Vandenberg's close friend, Washington Correspondent Jay Hayden of the Detroit News, revealed that a serious version of this dream is now very much on the Senator's mind. Launching a carefully drafted trial balloon in his column, Hayden reported that an "active movement" to make General Douglas MacArthur the Republican Presidential nominee in 1944 is now under way, that its unofficial headquarters is Vandenberg's office. His desk is littered with MacArthur biographies, his favorite being Bob Considine's MacArthur the Magnificent. Politicos by the score come to discuss the General...
...developed many of his own. He was on the U.S. Pharmacopoeia's committee for the last four editions (a new one is published every ten years), started and edited the American Pharmaceutical Association's Recipe Book through three editions, and edited Drug Topics' column of advice to druggists...
...have done in 17 months." Essential cargo for the available shipping is still difficult to supply. On many occasions equipment has been withdrawn from troops in training to supply troops overseas. Rumors that the army is so flooded with equipment that plants have had to shut down are fifth-column rumors designed to slow production. Some cutbacks in schedules have occurred. But only in one field, ammunition, is there a reserve...
Given a hot tip on fifth column activities in this country, Hope attempts to track down the enemy, who are hot on his trail. Most of the fleeing is done by Hope. When trapped in a large department store by the Nazi agents, Hope disguises himself in facial paste and a sheet, and hides in a ladies' Turkish bath...