Word: columns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Each week more and more TIME-readers write to the editors to applaud, lambaste or argue about stories in the magazine. Some offer additional information out of their own experiences. Others choose TIME'S Letters column as a forum to air their own views on world events and figures. Whatever the approach, their sprightly and often spirited commentaries from every corner of the earth have made TIME'S Letters columns one of the best-read international forums in the world...
After reading your recent Letters column, I'm amazed at the number of warmongers we in the U.S. have among us and our neighbor to the North. We elected Eisenhower to help keep the peace; now these rabble-rousers are mad because he doesn't drag us into...
...protection from "our Hungarian friends." Another delegation of women entered the U.S. legation a couple of blocks away, with a plea for U.N. help. Four Russian tanks roared up; Kadar's cops swung rifle butts, and legation staffers watched police carry off two truckloads of women. A Russian column charged up to a third group outside the Yugoslav embassy, pushed 15 to 20 demonstrators into armored cars, and made off. In a last despairing act, the women flung their pocketbooks to the crowd. From identification cards found inside, the Budapest Workers' Council made lists of the abducted women...
...Drug Co., feared consequences of columnist's "long series of offensive remarks" about Adlai Stevenson on his weekly newscast. Sponsor kept it quiet to give Mutual time to dig up fresh scratch (WW's weekly take: $5,000), but Winchell began sniping at Seaboard Drug in newspaper column. Sponsor exploded. "Malicious, libelous and untrue," said Seaboard President Harry Patterson. "The man has gone...
...Last year, the lip-smacking Mirror gave almost a whole page to a peekaboo shot of Princess Margaret, in a low-necked gown, stooping to receive a bouquet. In the venerable Times, the royal cleavage, chastely camouflaged with an artist's airbrush, was squeezed into a single inside column...