Word: columnized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Baltimore, a motorized column of University of Maryland students staged a night attack on Johns Hopkins University. Provocation: the kidnapping of a 400-lb. bronze terrapin from the University of Maryland campus. The invaders had to battle through barbed-wire entanglements and streams from fire hoses, were foiled when they got into the main dormitory-the defenders had covered the floors with a slippery mixture of soap chips and water...
...member of Kiwanis, Masons, Shriners, Elks, Odd Fellows, and the House of Representatives (since 1939), he has never been frightened by a rostrum. He is president of the National Forensic League. He has written for Outdoor America, the Country Gentleman, Conservation, Education and Successful Farming. He writes a monthly column about Washington for the Republican magazine. The war convinced him that "we must universalize education for peace...
...articles, not one explained a tycoon's secret of success in terms of sobriety, thrift and an 18-hour day. The dowdy "Post Old Style" type was long since gone; clean-cut Bodoni dressed the pages. Up front the hors d'oeuvres included a chatty letters column, with a grateful note from Reader Robert A. Taft, a bitter bleat from a customer who said the magazine stank. (Right, said the editor; it was that new black ink. Printed fine, smelled bad. The Post wouldn't offend again...
Washington, which dearly loves its gossip, has had to do without Walter Winchell's small chatter for nearly two years. Cissie Patterson dropped him from her Times-Herald and no other Washington paper would sign him on. This week Winchell's gossip column was back in the capital, but in a place where few Washingtonians would...
Winchell's chin-chopper column is the chief attraction of a curious new daily paper, the U.S. Journal, which made its first appearance this week. The Journal is about the size, shape and glossiness of Vogue but has only eight pages, costs a dime, and expects to break even if it sells only 10,000 copies. It is edited by Edward Maher, until recently the editor of Liberty. Maher hopes to cram the Journal with backdoor stuff, chitchat and personality stories. Says he: "When the other papers are covering 'big' developments, we'll be working behind...