Word: columnized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make suitable comment upon this week's isothermal aberrations. The desire to carry out this obligation to the readers was strengthed by the fact that it's too damn hot to think about anything but the heat. To the above two considerations was added the fact that the Editorial column must be filled by something, else subscribers will be demanding a pro rata reduction in the price of today's paper...
...news," says Executive Editor William Kerby. "We deal in situations." The dealing is done six days a week at 44 Broad Street, in a block-long newsroom with chartreuse curtains and a soundproofed ceiling. As an extra service, the Journal prints tried & true jokes in a "Pepper & Salt" humor column, suggests that readers retell them at lunch "or to clear the air at a tough conference...
...lively style, the Journal* does not run pictures. "We used to print little head cuts with the personnel notes," says one editor. "When we stopped, readership of the column went up." But the Journal is long on charts, graphs and maps. By aiming at the Main Streets of the U.S. as well as at Wall Street, its editors think they have distributed the risk in case of another depression. "Financial people are nice people, and all that," says Kilgore, "but there aren't enough of them to make this paper...
...stuff that the mails would not carry, and because her own private life is blackmail-proof. And she knows how to turn her most outrageous mistakes into a joke. To one "planter's" hurt question why she had reduced his exclusive scoop to one line, low in her column (it was one of her mistakes), she crowed: "Bitchery, baby, pure bitchery!" Hedda delights, in fact, in calling herself The Bitch of the World...
...coop and refused to talk to the press. Hedda, suspecting that Bette had gone to Laguna, climbed into her grey Cadillac and simply drove down. Finding the door ajar, she walked in. Bette was delighted to see her and they talked for two hours. Said Lolly in her column the next week: "Since Bette Davis has had so many unwelcome visitors, she has had to have her gate padlocked...