Word: columnized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...easy, intimate way, Howard Vincent ("Pat") O'Brien gave his public what he thought they wanted-"pathos comes first, humor second, with 'big thoughts' (economics, politics, etc.) trailing badly." His column in the Chicago Daily News, called "All Things Considered," was just that: pleasant musings about cats, commuting, sunspots, watercolors, dishwashing and his daughter's debut...
...sentimental O'Brien column, written the day his son Donel went off to war -and death-told a universal story. It was reprinted in Reader's Digest, read on the radio and at Rotary Clubs...
This spring, Pat O'Brien began to write about a new topic-his illness. From a hospital, he kept up his column with the aid of a dictating machine, datelined it "Cell 308." Some of his readers thought he had eye trouble; his sight had been failing for a long time. Not till three months ago did Pat tell his readers that he had cancer. Even then he tried to give them humor, albeit tightlipped. He wrote: "[The cancer] was near the base of the spine. . . . Getting it out involved considerable damage to adjacent and innocent property...
Among the admiring callers at the castle was Chitchatter Elsa Maxwell. "My old and affectionate friendship for Pablo Picasso," she burbled in next day's column, "is too well known to dwell upon. Our friendship during 27 years has always been full of surprises. ... I have always thought Picasso's blue period to be his best until yesterday, when I went to the Grimaldi Museum. ... I had seen quite a bit of Picasso in Paris this winter. When I asked him to come to America and told him about the money he would make there, he shrugged...
...Manager Jim Beverly '47 forecasts even better results for the coming season. "With the added incentive of rifles now owned by the club, and nearly twice the ammo available, and with a good turn-out at our meetings, we should rank much higher in the matches-won percentage column," he said...