Word: columnized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most typical, perhaps, of the strictly Broadway columnists who have been lured to broader if not greener pastures is the New York Daily News's Danton Walker (real name: Dan). Five days a week Walker writes a column naturally enough entitled "Broadway," for an estimated 5,000,000 readers of the News, (circulation: 2,000,000) and seven other metropolitan newspapers. Only a handful of Danton Walker's columns this year have featured the old-style, peeping-Tom type of item; most of his columns, filled now chiefly with predictions, are about such non-Broadway matters...
...seldom-varying routine. He wakes at 10. His houseman, a young Italian named Johnny Garry, fetches him coffee, mail and papers. Walker then shaves, showers, dons slacks and lounges until noon. Then he dresses and spends a couple of hours sorting column material and answering the phone (he has three, one with a shut-off device, scattered around the apartment). About 2 he walks to the News office, where his . column usually takes some two hours to type...
Says he: "I always have to start off three times before I get going, and I often find that what I wrote the third time is exactly what I wrote the first." His column done, Walker goes home, undresses, rests. In midevening he goes out to dine. He eats at various cafes and nightclubs, in many of them cuffo. The ethics of this does not bother him, since he feels he is much like the sportswriter who gets passes to ball games. Besides Walker gets only $50 a week expense money...
...Prediction. What Walker really considers his greatest triumphs are his column's predictions. Examples...
...well! At least he contributed something to the column...