Word: columnized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are a lot of new names among TIME'S editors over there in the next column-and perhaps you would read the stories they write for TIME with a more personal interest if you knew something about them...
Sugar. Ugly rumors of a Harlem-trained fifth column have been given wide-eyed credence in some Washington quarters. But the problem of Jamaica is endemic throughout the chain of strategic U.S., British, French and Dutch islands guarding the approaches to the Panama Canal. In its more somber and involved aspects the crisis resembles that in India. The immediate problem is the lack of shipping, which Nelson Rockefeller hopes to solve by building Caribbean schooners. Basically the problem is that of a one-crop economy (primarily sugar; sugar and bananas in Jamaica). Emphasis on monoculture has kept the potentially self...
Representative Harold Knutson, in his column in the Brainerd (Minnesota) "Dispatch," discussed last week the Dies Committee's accusations against the Union for Democratic Action. Knutson cited a great many facts about U. D. A. leaders which in his opinion prove it is an alien group. His comment on Dr. James Loeb, executive secretary of the Union, was that Locb formerly taught Romance languages. --From the Nation, July...
Needling the Vanderbilts. Socialites mortally feared him. Arrogantly independent toward everyone but Hearst advertisers and his friends, whom he shamelessly plugged in his column, he built up his reputation by conducting fabulous feuds with important people. Once the late Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt, irked at his constant references to her as "the daughter of a '49er," met him in a nightclub and scolded: "You are a rude, scurrilous man." "Yes, I am," he replied, "but I'd rather make a living that way than by selling bonds." For years he needled Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt by calling...
...when Hearst hired him as Cholly Knickerbocker for the American, Paul was writing columns for three New York City papers under three different names, and making $140 a week. Hearst called him, declared: "You're working too hard." For $250 a week, Paul agreed to write only one column. Eventually, with his Cholly Knickerbocker column widely syndicated, Paul earned more than $100,000 a year, became the highest paid society reporter of all time...