Word: columns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been a Scripps-Howard editor in Memphis, Birmingham, Denver and Pittsburgh for 31 years, longer than anybody else in the chain. He started out as an $8-a-week cub, would still rather hunch over a typewriter than an editor's desk, turns out a weekly syndicated column for Scripps-Howard...
...debate, Mrs. Roosevelt was clearly ahead on points. The subject that provoked the controversy, the cardinal's loss of temper, and her own adroit mode of expression were all in her favor until she gave way to some quiet gloating in her column about the favorable response in her mailbag. Surely, she must have realized that a considerable proportion of this response came from people afflicted with the fault which had been attributed to her and which she was in the process of disowning...
Bill Instructs. Mother & daughter agreed on William D. Pawley Jr., the 28-year-old son of the transit magnate and former ambassador to Brazil. Elizabeth met Bill last March in Miami while she and Glenn were still doing their gossip-column hitch. Every afternoon for a week Bill gave her driving lessons, every night he took her to a party. During the Easter holidays he flew to the Coast. Last June, after school was out, mother & daughter flew to Miami to stay at the Pawleys'. There Elizabeth and Bill announced their engagement...
...take the stand that no one should be fired for political beliefs-but membership in the Communist Party or in a number of Communist fronts is entirely different. The Communist Party is not a political party in the strict sense of the word - it's simply a fifth column for the Soviet Union." Earlier this year, Sweets resigned as president of the Radio & Television Directors' Guild rather than sign an anti-Communist affidavit. And Counterattack reeled off a list of Communist-front organizations which he had supported. Said Sweets, in a typical party-liner's defense...
...week's end, Publisher Bryan had cheering news for column readers. After interviewing numerous applicants, she had taken on another young tomcat with the same tiger markings and haunting eyes as her late staffer. His name: Scoopy...