Word: columns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speaking from that eminently dignified platform of public expression, the letters-to-the-editor column of the New York Times, five distinguished retired U.S. diplomats issued a sharp and unusual warning this week. Subject of the warning: the "sinister results" of McCarthyism on the conduct of the U.S. Foreign Service. The nation may. they suggested, be "laying the foundations of a Foreign Service competent to serve a totalitarian government rather than the Government of the United States as we have heretofore known...
...cowed by people in high places, Evie is outspoken on her column's cast of characters (the British: "They bore me:" the Italians: "Dull"). She does not pretend to cover Washington society completely, since "I really haven't got time for Congress." Good Business. Evie Gordon makes the rounds of up to two dozen cocktail parties and receptions a week, seldom takes notes but remembers what she sees or hears-and prints it on the theory that liveliness is more important than documented facts. "Rumors persist, though it seems improbable." she wrote recently, "that George Jessel will...
Fumed Evie in her column: "I've been covering White House receptions since the days of Calvin Coolidge, and it's the first time I ever heard of invited guests being told they could not follow the route to the presidential handshake . . . despite their correct evening attire, their long white gloves." Added Columnist Gordon later: "We might as well go in galoshes and tweed hats." The Battles of Protocol. A late-in-life blonde with the temper of a redhead, Columnist Gordon has fought many a skirmish before on the field of protocol...
When the Windsors were married, she wrote a long series of columns on the event, got herself temporarily banned from the British embassy. When Queen Elizabeth came to the U.S., Evie carped at her for not letting "anybody know which of her evening gowns she'll don." Once Evie and her husband, who runs a family investment company, went to a Saudi Arabian party "just boiling to get a drink," and found that, in accordance with Moslem law. no liquor was being served. Next day. she wrote an indignant "when in Rome" column, and her relations with Saudi Arabia...
Full Size. Last week the Mirror got ready for another big step to try to make its own way. Publisher Pinkley announced that beginning next month the Mirror will change its format again, this time into a full-size, eight-column paper like its morning sister, the Times. Pinkley said the change was the result of a poll which showed that its readers, 6-to-1, preferred an eight-column paper. "Besides," added Pinkley, "Los Angeles just isn't a tabloid town. Tabloids thrive where two things exist: dense population and good public transportation; Los Angeles has neither...