Word: columnized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week's column is dedicated to antiquity. In line with this it should be mentioned that a number of new and improved records have been cut by the revitalized Kid Ory Band with Omer Simcon and Papa Mutt Carey still effectively holding back father time...
...possibilities: 1) they had been pressed into slave labor in Siberia; 2) they were being held in Soviet hands to make sure that the U.S. could never use them in a war against Russia; 3) they were being held for use by the Russians themselves, either as a fifth column for Japan or as mercenary shock troops. The Soviet failure to repatriate Japanese prisoners was clearly a violation of the Potsdam Agreement. General Mac-Arthur had offered ships and aid to bring the missing Japanese home. But negotiations had broken down when the Russians refused to discuss military prisoners...
...radio. First they are screened to match the particular program's national audience. (Says Schwerin: "There is no such thing as a typical radio audience.") Then they listen to programs, recording their reactions on a tab sheet. About every 30 seconds they check the "good," "fair," or "poor" column. After Jan. 1, testers will use a mechanical gadget called the "reacto-caster," developed by Schwerin's father...
...another column last week Pegler sought to expose F.D.R.'s capacity and taste in liquor. Wrote he: "The President drank Martinis ... a horror to all well-mannered drinkers." Peg erred. F.D.R. was an Old-Fashioned man. Apropos his own bottle habits, Pegler, like a small boy writing on a blackboard, once repeated, for an entire post-New Year's Day column, a pledge not to mix his drinks...
...life with ex-Ziegfeld Follies beauty Gladys Glad was fodder for the most sentimental Hellinger copy. Married in 1929, they were divorced three years later. In his New York Mirror column Hellinger unabashedly sampled public reaction to the divorce. After imaginary interviews with a Wall Street clerk, a taxi driver, a socialite, etc., his final paragraph was the "Reaction of the Columnist, deep down in his heart: 'It's going to be awfully tough without you, baby. Awfully, awfully tough...