Word: columns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Missouri-born Bill Corum, 54, who makes close to $100,000 a year from his writing and his drawling broadcasts, will get an estimated $25,000 more just for promoting and running the Derby. He will continue his syndicated column for the New York Journal-American, but readers will get no more of his spring racing columns. During April and May his typewriter will be covered; Bill Corum will be in Louisville filling the job that old Matt Winn had held for 47 years...
Meanwhile, other British beasts were reverting to type. "A blue tit," wrote a correspondent to the letters column of the Times of London, "flew in at my window this morning, woke me up by thumping a Balzac novel, and proceeded to reconnoitre...
...figures, another division of the student group printed them in a newspaper. In their first issue, for instance, was a "Waste Table" showing three or four items on the city books during the past administration which they claimed were a gross and extravagant loss to the city. In another column in the newspaper, the research group pointed out the facts and figures of Maurice J. Tobin's victory over present Mayor James M. Curley...
Coach Poley Guyda is still experimenting with his offense and plans to use a number of reserves in-his attempt to return to the victory column...
...Other Way." Shirley told the news according to the strict pressagent-approved code of prominent film personalities: she telephoned Hearst's Louella Parsons, in whose syndicated column Hollywood's private lives pass regularly into the public domain. "Oh, it's not sudden," said Shirley (as related by Louella). "I've been in Palm Springs for six days trying to think out the best thing to do. I didn't want to break up my home and my marriage, but there's no other way. I don't want to hurt John. I want...