Word: columns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...latest evidence of the CRIMSON's slanting of the news is manifested in the treatment of the Harry Dexter White case. On Monday, November 16, Harry Truman spoke nationally defending his position in the case. The CRIMSON gave this story a center column on the first page. On Tuesday, November 17, Herbert Brownell Jr. and J. Edgar Hoover appeared in front of the Senate Internal Security Committee and refuted a major part of Mr. Truman's speech. The report of this testimony, which was headline news in almost every other newspaper in the country, was carried by the CRIMSON only...
...general, the CRIMSON does not play news of national rather than local significance anywhere but in the Associated Press column. Usually, this policy is amended only in the case of certain elections or deaths of national of international figures of more than ordinary importance. Sometimes it happens, however, that because of a lack of local stories, a national story is forced into another spot. This happened in the instance of the Truman speech. The next day there were enough important local stories to fill the regular columns. Besides this, the Truman speech was broadcast late at night, while the senate...
...Europe with his $250 New York State serviceman's bonus. In Paris, he lived on his $75 G.I. Bill allowance, finally talked Variety into letting him do occasional reporting. Three months later, he went to the Paris Herald Tribune, and last year persuaded the paper to run his column in its New York home edition...
Price of Fame. Strange crusades are the lifeblood of his column. He has complained about dogs in restaurants ("I like animals damn it-but I draw the line there"), blasted the famed Cafe de la Paix for warning its customers not to kiss in public ("If you can't kiss someone in a sidewalk cafe, where can you kiss her?"), and explained why French speak such tortured English (they use an English-made-easy guide, which offers such phonetic help as: "Pliize sho me ze boukigne off-ice for leug-guedge"). Occasionally he also picks up off-beat business...
Faced with a price war in Portland, Ore., the Safeway chain last week hit upon a surefire way to fight competitors selling coffee and cigarettes at cut rates. "Does your P.T.A., church, lodge, club, or charity need money for Christmas?" asked Safeway in five-column newspaper ads. "Here is your chance to make easy money." Safeway offered to pay $1.57 a carton for cigarettes, which could be bought at $1.45 at price-cutting stores, and 83? a Ib. for coffee, which the price cutters sold...