Word: columnized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Handyman. In Woodbury, N.J., the ad placed by a "young man, 36" in the Help Available column of the local newspaper offered to "do anything from breaking into Fort Knox to pushing your mother-in-law out the window...
With this flamboyant formula, plus a dash of socialism, roly-poly little Editor Harry Guy ("Mister Bart") Bartholomew of the Mirror had outdistanced the equally flamboyant Express. For years the world's biggest daily, the Express had added Dick Tracy and a letters column. But it had picked up only 130,000 readers, dropping to second place, with a January average...
Judge Silbert found out what he had done last week in the Press story under an eight-column, Page One banner: FAKE CASE PROVES DIVORCE EASY. Wrote Reporter Hammer: "I believe [Judge Silbert] would have signed the paper if it appointed me President Truman's guardian." The Press followed up his story with a front-page editorial condemning "assembly line" justice...
Actually, Nite Life had the cold dope on Freddie. Like other newsmen, Examiner Managing Editor William C. Wren had known for two years about his columnist's record, but he had not been disturbed. But at week's end, the column vanished from the Examiner. The order to fire Freddie Francisco, said Hearstlings, came from the Chief himself...
...same guttural nationalist accents that General Lucius D. Clay has been inveighing against recently. Said the U.S.-licensed Frankfurter Rundschau: "Certain [Germans] smile when they read Die Neue Zeitung, as they can find there everything they think and do not dare to say . . . Whether they read the column called 'Observer' or the letterbox 'The Free Word' they will always find a sarcastic criticism of the American occupation or the Anglo-American occupation policy...