Word: columns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What Jim Bishop is doing is writing a new thrice-weekly newspaper column that, as Hearst's King Features Syndicate explains with a gush, "opens to readers his heart-warming world of laughter, love and tears." The column, "Jim Bishop: Reporter," is already running in 66 dailies. It has landed Bishop a contract that, with other assignments for the Hearst press, guarantees him a minimum $65,000 a year, has earned him syndicate billing as "The HOTTEST Writer in America" and the opportunity to "go anywhere, write anything...
...Christ Died), Author Bishop insists that he is "not to be confused with a pundit." "Most of all," he assured readers, "I like to write stories about little people . . . A story a day. Each one, I hope, with a thought-provoking moral." In its first three weeks the column heart-warmed readers with stories about Bandleader Frankie Carle, "little man at the big piano"; Bishop's little mother, "a short, stout woman [with] a beautiful figure"; his two little daughters; an auto accident involving a carload of little victims; and a little spaniel that became addicted to alcohol...
...Crimson, which has dropped Eastern Intercollegiate League games to Columbia and Darmouth, cannot afford to lose any more and must hope for a mistake from E.I.B.L. leaders Yale and Dartmouth. Navy should be unable to keep the varsity from getting back into the win column...
...metallic blues and greens, it creates a panorama of cloud-shrouded peaks and gorges against which is shown a group of horsemen and camels, led by a red-coated figure that may be Emperor Ming Huang himself. In the foreground, pack asses roll in the grass, while the column winds slowly ahead in a procession that ushers into Chinese art the great theme of the all-engulfing landscape...
...well have foundered against commanders like Grant and Sherman. As it was, Jackson's greatest coups were repeatedly frustrated by the dogged resistance of the often outwitted but seldom outfought Union soldier. At the Second Battle of Bull Run, Jackson struck with sledgehammer force against an unsuspecting Federal column miles behind the front. Instead of disintegrating in a rout, the Federals slugged it out toe to toe for two hours, and Jackson's own beloved Stonewall Brigade lost a third...