Word: columns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your Judgments & Prophecies column, four writers were able to express their opinions on certain subjects without using pronouns. The fifth "writer," namely Mrs. F.D.R., used six "I's" and one "me" to tell your readers how revolting she thinks the H-bomb...
...hearings could not remember seeing anyone actually handing him the document. None of them volunteered to step up and corroborate or deny that part of Winchell's story when Committee Chairman Watkins offered them the opportunity. Last week, after his appearance on the witness stand, Winchell in his column offered another explanation of how he got the document. Wrote he: "In the corridor, some Good Fairy waved his wand and there it was, in my li'l ole pocket...
Dear Phoebe (Fri. 9:30 p.m., NBCTV) has Peter Lawford pretending to be the editor of an advice-to-the-lovelorn column. Most viewers can take it from there, as the expected foils march onstage in the expected order. There is the fiery girl reporter (Marcia Henderson), who "meets cute" with Lawford as both try to enter the same swinging door; the hardboiled, conscienceless managing editor (Charles Lane); the brash but dumb copy boy (Joe Corey). Faced with all these predictable characters and situations, Lawford still manages to infuse some wit and awareness into the stereotyped proceedings. But what little...
...bitter dispute would not help Curly Byrd's long-shot chances of unseating McKeldin. In 1950 McKeldin's victory was attributed to the votes of Mahoney backers who crossed over into the Republican column...
Caen's column was hardly on the streets when readers began to phone the paper. They pointed out that an almost identical story about an unnamed woman had appeared in the August issue of Reader's Digest. Two days later Caen printed a brief apology for the slip, and sent the magazine a check for $20 to cover reprint rights on the story-the same sum Caen has often been paid for an item by the Digest...