Word: columns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Macon, Ga. Her first husband, Walter Inman, was of Atlanta's aristocracy. In 1907, widowed, she married Buck Duke, who had divorced his first wife, Lillian N. McCready. Famed is Daughter Doris Duke (born 1912) who will become a trustee when she reaches her majority. Many a newspaper column has been devoted to Doris and her wealth ($53,000,000), her presentation at the Court of St. James's, her expensive debut at Newport last year (she was supposed to awaken to melodious chimes, bathe in water from an illuminated fountain, travel with a body-guard). Like many another rich...
...elder Brisbane bought at advertising rates a front-page column in Horace Greeley's New York Tribune, wrote therein every day for two years of Fourier's plans for the development of small cooperative communities (called Associations), in which manual labor should be dignified, social distractions nonexistent. At Freehold, N. J. Albert Brisbane founded such a community, forerunner of famed Brook Farm at West Roxbury, Mass...
...When my father had written for the Tribune for a couple of years, he said to Greeley: 'I shall not want that column of yours any more, as I am going to Europe.' Greeley replied: 'Don't do that, Brisbane; I'll let you write the column for nothing.' The fact was that my father's writing had helped to increase the circulation of the Tribune...
...reader of The New Republic since 1914 and an admirer of the writings of Walter Lippmann wishes to express his appreciation of your column under The Press during the week of March 30. "A Testament'' is very timely. It causes one to recall the closing paragraph in the ninth volume of Henry Adams' History of the. United States. "The traits of American character were fixed; the rate of physical and economical growth was established; and history, certain that at a given distance of time the Union would contain so many millions of people, with wealth valued...
...complete the Tribune's discomfiture, Journalist Heywood Broun of the New York World-Telegram devoted a day's column to the obituary, saying: "The incident raises the whole question of what differentiation should be made between criticism of the quick and of the dead. It is familiar journalistic practice to take back a great deal about any opponent as soon as he has safely departed from life. I think this constitutes a faulty method...