Word: columns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aspect of this common man's liking for the U.S. can be seen in the great popularity enjoyed by the New York Yankees on their several tours through Japan. A question on the Yankees in Jimmy Jemail's "Hotbox" column in a recent Sports Illustrated brought an enthusiastic response from Japanese fans, one of whom even praised Yogi Berra for "looking like a Japanese...
...absence of a single piece of complete fiction is ill-concealed by the make-up changes, which feature a slightly smaller page, with single column print plus big margins. The return of the men who ought to be writing for the Advocate will, however, with luck, permit abandoning the new format, since it causes considerable eyestrain and is less than lovely, despite a distinctly attractive typeface...
...thinking with strenuous legwork. went doorbell ringing in Portland and Seattle to talk with the voters. His findings: 1) the big issue with most people is foreign policy, i.e., peace; 2) voters have made a switch from Ike to Stevenson that may put Oregon and Washington into the Democratic column. But Alsop cautioned: "In most cases, the switchers had made their decisions without passion or violent conviction. Their decisions, one felt, might be changed later...
Died. Elsie Robinson, 73, gushy, widely read Hearstling whose syndicated column "Listen, World!" began twanging heartstrings in 1924, continued to resound after she was permanently bedridden following a 1940 accident; in San Francisco...
...arrest, there are nagging loose ends: Was the acid bath to silence Riesel, as the Government insisted, or to even a grudge? If the columnist had to be silenced, why wasn't he murdered? And why should Dio, whose name had not appeared in a Riesel column since 1953, be anxious to attack him? Biggest question of all: Did the chain of command really stop at Johnny...