Word: columns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...organized, Hoiles's virulently antiunion views quickly antagonized labor and provoked Hoiles's first big fight right in his own shop. To cut costs, the News's Publisher E. Robert McDowell, a longtime Hoiles-man (and onetime printer), dropped the paper's staff-written business column, trimmed admen's commissions. Hoiles had agreed to honor the News's American Newspaper Guild contract with editorial and business office staffers, but employees had no hope of renewing the one-year contract,when it expired last February. Many longtime staffers quit and were replaced by nonunion newsmen...
...lifelong newsman, whose family for the past 107 years has had a City of London monopoly on reporting news from small city courts, Hubble was first assigned to grapple with readers' problems in wartime, when he ran a serviceman's gripe column in the armed-forces paper, Union Jack. So successful was the column that at war's end, when the Union Jack's editor, a bright young Fleet Streeter named Hugh Cudlipp (now editorial director for the Mirror group) returned as editor of the Pictorial, he persuaded Hubble to run the readers' service bureau...
...London for Derby Week, when the "talk of the town is 'orses, 'orses, 'orses," the San Francisco Chronicle's Stanton Delaplane could not restrain his admiration for the way the British press writes about 'orses. For readers of his syndicated column back home, Pulitzer Prizewinner Delaplane described the basic English race-track story...
Last December, after ten years of co-autrforing their four-day-a-week column for the New York Herald Tribune Syndicate, Joseph and Stewart Alsop decided to try a "new and frankly experimental" division of effort. While Family Man Stewart, 43, stayed home in Washington to file two columns a week from Capitol Hill, Bachelor Joe, 46, decided to give readers first-hand coverage of events in Europe and the Middle East. Last week, after six months of steady travel in which he broke the news (after an interview with Khrushchev) of the Soviet Union's sweeping industrial reorganization...
Scheuer's service, which began four years ago, includes a bylined column on TV news and gossip, plus a sidedish of questions and answers about television. Three months ago he also blossomed out as a regular morning-after TV critic for New York's Daily Mirror (which runs his previews too). Thus in the case of a single TV show, he sometimes reads the script, attends the dress rehearsal, writes an advance report-and then reviews the finished product...