Word: columnized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Month ago Fisher aimed a haymaker at Idaho's Democratic Governor Arnold Williams, sneered that he "will no more enforce the laws than he will climb to the top of a flagpole to eat his lunch." Next day the Republican Statesman used an entire editorial column to bail out the Democratic governor and bawl out its free-swinging columnist. Vardis Fisher quit in a huff, looked for another soapbox. Last week, readers who really missed him had to buy a tiny upstart weekly called Statewide (circ. 5,000). Fisher and his new editor were getting along fine...
...column is written by a listener for other listeners...
When the New York Herald, Tribune asked Reporter John Crosby to write a radio column, he had two strikes against him: he knew nothing about radio; he did not even own a set. Last week, less than three months after Crosby bought a portable and began an ear-aching routine of constant listening, the Trib decided that his five-a-week columns were too good to keep, signed him for September syndication. Said Managing Editor George Cornish: "He turned out to be a damned sight better than I had any right to expect...
More than good reading, Crosby's column socks radio's weak pitches right out of the lot. Samples...
...Meet in front of the Coop at 9:30 o'clock" is an announcement familiar to all readers of the Notice Column and the Harvard Outing Club's bulletin board in Sever. Going into its sixth year of operation, the Club boasts that it is the most coeducational and non-exclusive extracurricular activity in the University...