Word: columns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...golf course and Florida real estate. He and Ted Williams are co-owners of a fishing-tackle company. Endorsements bring in a good stipend and three gleaming Nashes each year. He has made a golfing record, several films, draws royalties from four ghost-written books and a ghosted golfing column. And, like all the top pros, he makes money gambling on the game...
...paper. This spring, the new managing editor, running for president, took a stand against segregation. He was unanimously defeated by a student-faculty board of control. But in the final spring edition, the student who was finally elected president continued the paper's former stand and printed a column headed, "Segregation Is Wrong...
Controversy reached a high point with the column of W. O. McGeehan in the Boston Globe. He wrote to the effect that given a chance the graduates and undergraduates of Harvard would gladly trade President Lowell, President Emeritus Eliot, and three heads of departments for a good running backfield and no questions asked...
When H. L. Mencken was slaying dragons with his weekly column in the Baltimore Sun, he seldom spoke well of politicians. But this spring H. C. ("Curley") Byrd, football coach and later president of the University of Maryland, who is running for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, is using a campaign card with a Mencken quote. The card quotes Mencken as having written of Byrd and his performance at the university that "the thing to do with a man of such talents is not to cuss him for doing his job so well; it is much wiser . . . to give...
Early in the afternoon, the column was again stopped by an enemy attack. Capa jumped down, announced that he was "going up the road a little bit," and asked the others to "look for me when you get started...