Word: columnized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Comedian Fred Allen knows a lot about radio, but he doesn't always approve of the medium that gives him such a good living (TIME, April 7). Last week, in vacationing Critic John Crosby's syndicated column, Guest Critic Allen let fly at the "multiple forces [that] conspire to thwart" radio comedians. Sample Allen peeves...
They turn to the Enterprise with the same escapist hunger that makes thousands of city-pent slickers buy the Old Farmer's Almanac. They delight in the fillers ("This line fills this column"; "What's good for bee stings?") and the editorials, like the recent one that reminded the governor that "the Androscoggin River stinks again. . . . We have not heard from Governor Hildreth in some time. Does anybody know whatever became...
Last week, suntanned John Gould was one of the country's busiest country editors. He started two new radio programs, turned out the editorials for the Enterprise and a down-on-the-farm column for the Christian Science Monitor, worked on a new book, kept up with his 100-acre farm (he is his own hired hand) and between chores drove over to Northeast Harbor to address the Maine Press Association...
SUPPORT OUR MAYOR KEN.NELLY! cried an eight-column 120-point red banner -line (the kind dear to Hearst's heart...
...angle is always a good thing to start with, but that would only make things hotter, and no one would want that, would he? Another sure fire eye-catcher would be, "Hot enough for you?" This, however, is too short. If the ed is to fill the column it must be padded a little here and there, and the beginning is the best place to do it--before the reader has had time to finish his first cup of coffee and get his eyes fully open...