Word: columns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Near midnight on Nov. 3, I disgustedly turned off my radio and sat down to write my weekly column called "Hangovers" for my weekly country newspaper. The first words I set down were "As Maine goes, so goes Vermont." I realized immediately that the wisecrack was so obvious that it was scarcely worth printing, but I let it ride because I could think of nothing better...
...year-old Editor Arthur Brisbane of the Hearstpapers began to suffer heart attacks. Last week Editor Brisbane took to bed in his Manhattan apartment. On Christmas Eve, Mr. Brisbane murmured into one of his numerous Dictaphones, brought to his bedside, a timely installment of his far-famed "Today" column: "Another Christmas has come. . . . Nineteen Hundred and Thirty-six years ago . . . 'Peace on earth, 'good will toward men'. . . ." Before he could finish, Mr. Brisbane was tired out. His son Seward furnished the final paragraph, the first writing not actually by Arthur Brisbane ever to appear in the daily...
...journalistic giant who inspired such awe began his newspaper life early. Son of a well-to-do parlor radical, Albert Brisbane of Buffalo, who paid for space to run a doctrinaire column in Horace Greeley's New York Tribune, Arthur Brisbane was educated abroad, mostly by tutors, turned up on the old New York SMI in 1883, aged 19. At that time the SMI thought extraordinarilv well of itself, encouraged its young men to write long "literary" pieces. Thriving young Arthur Brisbane was made the Sun's London correspondent, wrote a famous account of the fight between John...
...working methods Brisbane displayed an efficiency which was as great and remarkable as was his industry. Most of "Today's" fluent stream was spoken into Dictaphones, which Mr. Brisbane had installed even in his limousine and on planes and trains. Often the "Today" column would be dictated as Mr. Brisbane's car stood on the deck of the ferry taking him from Manhattan to his New Jersey estate. The speed with which he learned to dispose of journalistic chores left him plenty of time to devote to his financial and real estate interests...
...Christmas Eve the three-race pari-mutuel total at the Fair Grounds in New Orleans was $107.20. The five-race total was $169.80, the seven-race $219. Taking, in order, the last digit in the dollar column in each total, the result...