Word: columns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Goren's bridge books have sold 3,500,000 copies in the U.S. alone, have been translated into eight foreign languages. His seven-days-a-week bridge column appears in 194 U.S. newspapers with a combined circulation of 26 million, and in foreign papers from Manila to Johannesburg. Of the U.S.'s 1,000 fulltime professional bridge teachers, more than 90% teach the Goren system of bidding...
...Evening Standard column next day, Churchill burbled. "I was lucky enough to see the Prime Minister last night, and am happily in a position to tell the world that Britain will stand by the U.S. in the Far East." Instantly, there was a howl of outrage. Journalists complained that Churchill had violated the spirit of the hallowed rule that no British reporter may quote directly the informal statements of the Prime Minister on an important or delicate issue. Laborite politicians charged that Macmillan seemed to be committing Britain to fight for Quemoy, alongside...
Readers of the famed "Agony" (personal) column in the Times of London had never before seen anything quite like this: "Social consciences wanted. The improvement of contraceptive methods is a vital social problem . . . New methods can only be proved by couples willing to risk pregnancy. We urgently want volunteers for our trials...
...better than three years, dark-haired, dynamic Editor-Publisher Charles Foley has shaped his Times into a trimly edited, headline-splashed eight-column paper that generally has islanders choking on their breakfast. He thinks, and says, that British policy is a mess. He loudly deplores Greek terrorism for destroying all chance of peace. He blasts the island's Turkish leader for stirring up racial hatred...
Last week Dorothy Thompson went off the record. The time had come, she wrote in a farewell column, for her to "relive my life" in preparation for her ninth and most ambitious book: an autobiography that would also be a personal history of her war-torn times...