Word: columns
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...play Marco, a viewer picks up a special card (limit: three) at his grocer's, fills it out by writing his own combination of numbers in the blank spaces (e.g., in the five blanks in the "M" column he may write any numbers from 1 to 25; under the "A" column, any from 26 to 50). He sends the completed card to KTLA, keeping a duplicate for himself...
...playing golf while bigger tasks went undone in the background, have been replaced by nonpolitical cartoons. More and more readers detect a hint of reasonableness in Trib editorials for some of the opinions of the other side. Apart from politics, the colonel has ordered dry-runs on a gossip column for the Trib, although in the past he has scorned such things as the work of "keyhole peepers...
...column, "The Sportlight," syndicated to more than 100 U.S. dailies, Granny Rice did more than report sports, often in sentimental verse. "He was the prophet of the glory of games," said his old friend, Manhattan Adman Bruce Barton, "he was an evangelist...
Sportswriter Rice really started to make a national name himself when he went to work for the old New York Mail. He moved on to the Tribune and other papers, finally began to write a syndicated column. He coined the phrase "the Four Horsemen'' for Notre Dame's famed backfield the day in 1924 that they beat Army ("Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore they are known as Famine, Pestilence. Destruction and Death . . . Their real names are Stuhldreher, Miller. Crowley and Layden...
Maryland McCormick, wife of the Chicago Tribune's Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick and writer of a weekly column for the Trib and Washington's Post and Times-Herald, had what seemed like a stroke of bad luck. Laid up with bronchitis, she could not get around to scout up subjects for her column, passed the time talking to her upstairs maid, who has worked in the household for more than 30 years. The result was a lively column about Prime Minister Churchill, when he was the house guest of Anglophobe Colonel McCormick 25 years...