Word: columnized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...elegant Paris apartment, Cléo, past 70, looked about 40. Her hair was still brown and luxuriant, parted demurely in the middle as it was in the great exotic days. She had no wrinkles on her face or hands-only her once incomparable neck was a somewhat ravaged column. She was just back in Paris from the provinces, where, like Gertrude Stein, she had sat out World...
Last month Tom Stokes's conscience drove him to a remarkable decision: he insisted that his column be dropped by the Scripps-Howard chain, which started to syndicate him two years ago. Like Westbrook Pegler and the late Heywood Broun, Stokes had-or thought he had-an acute case of Scripps-Howard trouble...
...recent months, Roy Howard's New York World-Telegram, key link in the chain, had frequently killed the Stokes column. The days when he was dropped, he noted, were usually days when he and the paper's editorial policy (hard-a-star-board Republican) disagreed...
...works in shirtsleeves, never smokes, drinks or swears. But he goes with the boys who do, and sometimes, on out-of-town trips, writes their stuff for them when they get plastered. Six days a week he eyes the sports field once over lightly, knocks out a chatty, chummy column called the Morning After. At the small Dunlap Baptist Church, in a rundown part of town, Brougham teaches a Sunday school class of 35 teenagers. They come partly for the Bible lessons, partly to meet the guest stars their teacher hauls in from the sports world...
...radio chatterer on the side, he earns $12,000 a year. He has traveled 350,000 miles to cover sports events. He has bombarded crooked sports promoters with thousands of yards of angry copy. His staffers resent the way he picks their brains for squibs for his column, taking their brightest gossip, but they have to admire the way the boss's column pulls in the fan mail...