Word: columns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...helped write anonymous, gossipy Washington Merry-Go-Round (TIME, Sept. 21, 1931). When his good friend & colleague, Drew Pearson, was similarly discharged from the Baltimore Sun for his hand in More Merry-Go-Round, the two turned their bad luck into fame & fortune by starting a syndicated column called Washington Merry-Go-Round. Crack newshawks both, their knowing gossip has made them minor political powers around the capital, while Bob Allen's pugnacity has won him a certain extraprofessional renown...
...Last week his 75-year-old son, onetime (1897-1906) Governor of New Mexico, gave further proof of Otero vitality when he offered, in the first volume of his reminiscences, a book that is often as exciting as an old-fashioned Western thriller, sometimes as quaint as the society column in a frontier newspaper, but in general an amusing, informative, absorbing piece of work...
Least of Oscar Odd McIntyre's worries is what Manhattan readers and his contemporaries think of his column. Outside New York, editors gladly pay anywhere from $2 to $200 a week for the privilege of printing "New York Day By Day." McIntyre at 51 receives an income which has been guessed as high as $2,000 a week?a guess which McNaught says is too low. He lives with his wife, the former Maybelle Hope Small, who embarrasses him before company by asking "How's my itty mans?" They occupy an expensive co-operative apartment at No. 290 Park...
...career McIntyre does not let his readers forget. One is that he and his wife suffered the harshest privations when they first arrived in Manhattan 23 years ago, after a knockabout newspaper career in the Midwest. At that time his problem was to get editors to print his column for nothing, so he might collect an occasional meal or the price of room rent from some restaurant or hotel whose name he had insinuated into print. His wife patiently worked the mimeograph machine, licked the stamps, kept what records there were. The other point is that his wife for years...
...Gallipolis hangs a wrought-iron sign, silhouetting a likeness of McIntyre at a typewriter. A legend beneath reads: "Boyhood home of O. O. McIntyre. Famous newspaperman and now writer of New York Day By Day." The Gallipolis Tribune proudly runs his column on the front page...