Word: columns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...downward column of smoke and a few bits of floating debris last week severely set back the world's bravest post war experiment in civil aviation. One more British Comet, the third of the swift jet liners in less than a year, crumpled in mid-air and plunged into the Tyrrhenian Sea, killing all on board...
...turned out, the Times itself was the first paper to break the release. After putting their first edition to press, alert Times staffers spotted Drew Pearson's column in the early edition of the New York Daily Mirror. It was all about the H-bomb film, including a description of the "monstrous fireball . . . three miles in diameter." Since it seemed to the Times that Drew Pearson had broken the release date, Reston advised his office to run the story on the H-bomb film in later editions, but without the pictures.- Then Reston called the Washington bureaus...
...surprised than Pearson himself. He had not even been to the briefing, or known about the one-week embargo. Actually, Pearson had got hold of the film script long before, had broadcast an H-bomb description three months ago with almost as many details as last week's column. No one had said anything about it. Last week's col umn, said Pearson, was written only be cause "I didn't have anything better to write about," and was sent out two days before the briefing. It was set in type in many papers before the hydrogen...
While driving about the U.S. in the early 19405 gathering material for a weekly syndicated travel column, husky (6 ft. 2 in.) Warren Bayley worked up an explosive head of steam against short beds, rock-hard mattresses and drafty bathrooms. He made up his mind that some day he was going to build a place of his own where travelers could spend the night in comfort...
...merger will not change the Post's editorial policies or its basic format. While it has taken on some Times-Herald features, including a weekly column by Maryland McCormick, the colonel's wife (TIME, March 8), it has already dropped from the new combined paper such features as Columnist Westbrook Pegler and sensational, slapdash Labor Columnist Victor Riesel. Graham expects relatively clear sailing ahead. Said he: "(Buying the TH) was the culmination of Eugene Meyer's effort for the Post for over 20 years...