Word: columns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...another mythical enemy threatened -more than made up for it. Favored by a high ceiling, the division performed as it had never had a chance to do since leaving Dayton, flew by the reviewing stand at Boston Harbor in such close-packed formation that the passage of the entire column consumed only n minutes. Most impressive was the finished work of the 95th Pursuit Squadron, commanded by Lieut. Irving Woodring, last of the Army's famed "Three Musketeers." Time and again the 18 Boeings roared down from the sky to smite the bombers. Heartened by the armada...
...Hearstpapers throughout the land last fortnight, readers beheld a new column of news notes headed "The Globe Trotter." Radiowners were told they might tune in and hear "The Globe Trotter" relate his stories in more detail. At newsreel theatres were showing shots of the events thus Globe-Trotted. This ingenious coordination of press, radio and screen was the latest development of Hearst Metrotone News. The reels, distributed twice weekly by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, are prepared in Manhattan but can be modified to include events of local interest where they are displayed. The name of the "sponsoring" newspaper is worked into...
...rattlesnake steaks were served on toast, garnished with lettuce. The flesh resembled salmon. Reported the "Gulf Gleam" column of the Tampa Tribune: "We thought our comrades must have been bitten by a bottle of Tampa liquor and were taking the rattlesnake as antidote...
...their loads last Sunday. The paper?largest ever published in Detroit?included 114 pages of rotogravure in addition to the usual sections, all for the glory of the Free Press's 100th anniversary.* The Centennial Edition, edited by Malcolm W. Bingay who conducts the paper's daily "Good Morning" column, reviewed the history of the paper, of Detroit and of mankind for the past hundred years. Crowning item was a rotogravure page with a large photograph of Poet Edgar Albert ("Eddie") Guest, pride of the Free Press, and a seven stanza poem written by him for the occasion. First stanza...
...Every once in a while Harry Acton, shipnews reporter for the New York American, fills his column with sundry information under the title DID YOU KNOW? Last week he asked if his readers knew: "That the pure-blooded dogs brought out by the French colonials to French Indo-China are often garbed in stout canvas pants to assure their offspring against mixture with the local mongrel breed...