Word: columnized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington) turned up in the new edition of the New York Social Register, along with Mrs. Winthrop ("Bobo") Rockefeller. But a new edition of a Columbia University faculty cookbook, published the same day, showed that General Ike had not lost the common touch. It contained his folksy, first-person, column-long recipe for vegetable soup, (sample subtlety: "Take a few nasturtium stems, cut them up in small pieces, boil them separately . . . and add about a tablespoon of them...
...firebox of Drew Pearson's clangorous Washington Merry-Go-Round. Such fuel, some chestnut-sized, some no bigger than pea coal, and every now & then a nugget as big as a man's hand, has kept the carrousel spinning for 16 years. Next week, the column and its author will share a milestone: on Dec. 13, Pearson's 51st birthday, the Merry-Go-Round will start its 17th year. Under a newly signed contract, Pearson can be pretty sure of four more years as the world's second-best-paid newsman, and its second-most-widely...
...Pearson takes in about $350,000 a year, and, after taxes and necessarily heavy expenses (including a cut for Robert S. Allen, no longer his partner but still part owner of the column), keeps about a tenth...
...Wednesday's Navy-Penn Military College game. Ben Carnevale's "greenest Naval Academy team in years" opened its season with an easy 48-30 win. Klinite, the center, was high man with five field goals and four free throws. The name Mullaney was also prominent in the scoring column, with eight points beside it. "All we know bout him is that he's Joe Mullaney's brother and he stands six-two," Coach Barclay said...
Heiskell's tolerance also permits a daily column in the staid Gazette by Hardy ("Spider") Rowland, a cigar-chomping, self-confessed sinner who used to run a suburban gambling house. Spider writes about his bouts with "wobble water," refers to young girls as "quails," and brags about his encounters with the law. Spider wrote in a recent column: "I attribute my outstanding ability to kiss to blowing a bugle for a couple of years with the Boy Scouts...