Word: columns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...result of this was TIME'S two-column story (May 4, 1953) on Nasser, which described him as "a lean young field officer, just turned 35, who does not even hold Cabinet rank. Lieut. Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser is becoming the real power in Egypt's military junta−more important even than Naguib, the reluctant dictator...
...assassinated Huey: "Someone behind me yelled, 'Those are just in play.' I said, 'The hell they are. Those are bullets.' So I got behind the Speaker's desk." When the woman directed her fire toward him, Speaker Martin pressed back behind a column...
...days later, a French Union column reached Thanthuong. Of its 2,000 people, only 600 remained; 25 were known dead, the rest had disappeared. A French colonel continued the story: "The shops that were the pride of Thanthuong were completely looted. We found the body of a six-year-old child, strafed with bullets. Inside the church, all statues of saints were broken, their heads and hands chopped off. The big statue of Christ was broken. The Catholic sisters' cloister, an orphanage and a school ... all that was left standing were a few bits of walls...
...Washington political column syndicated to 145 U.S. dailies, last week Columnist Marquis Childs, 50, struck a gloomy note. "Neither party," wrote Fair Dealer Childs, "has come to any [overall policy] agreement within its own ranks . . . If we are to save ourselves, we must . . . think anew and act anew." The sentiment was not new, but for Childs it had a special meaning. This week he quit as a political pundit for United Features, went back to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, where he had been a staffer for 18 years before leaving to start his column in 1944. United Features will...
...tour of Europe). While Childs decided to go back to his old paper at "a slight financial loss," he thinks this will be more than made up by the freedom of his new job. Says Childs: "I feel I will have more latitude as a reporter. I think the column's been doing very well, but there was the danger of becoming sort of a croaker. I wanted to avoid that by going back to reporting as the basis of my writing...