Word: columns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...constituted approximately 7% of Eisenhower's total nationwide vote. If Stevenson could have held in 1952 only those Catholics who had voted for Truman in 1948 but for Ike in 1952-or if he could recapture them in 1956-this would add 132 electoral votes to the Democratic column, enough when combined with the Solid South to provide a majority of electoral votes...
...himself from his office in the corner of the city room. At first Catledge thought that all he needed was a small box, but as the plight of the Andrea Doria grew more desperate, he put all 15 men of his night staff to work, splashed on an eight-column, three-line, 48-point headline, second only to the 60-point head the conservative Times reserves for "declarations of war." As stories poured in from the foreign desk, the national desk, even the obituary desk, advertising was killed to make more room...
...enterprising New York Journal-American tapped Italy's billowing Cinemactress Sophia (Too Bad She's Bad) Loren to guest-write a column for its vacationing Gossipist Dorothy Kilgallen. In carefully fractured English, Sophia (or a waggish ghost) ground out some profound pap. Of men and their sex drive: "[A man] is like a small boy in a restaurant. Can only eat a little bit, but wants the whole menu. He cries if somebody else eat a little too. But if nobody wishes canard sauce bigarrade, he don't wish either. Can be starving, still no canard sauce...
Double Irony. Saul, "a noble column of a man," first irks autocratic Samuel by winning famous victories with no active assistance from the prophet. Later Saul directly flouts God's will, as interpreted by Samuel, with the air of a man who gets his orders direct. Jealous of Saul and resentful of his own failing prophetic powers, Samuel sets about plotting the upstart king's undoing. Samuel's master stroke is to seek out David, the young poet whom Saul loves like a son. Though David protests his loyalty to Saul, Samuel whispers: "Saul has drawn down...
...blow off steam in suburban Long Island is to write a letter to Newsday (circ. 239,972), which runs readers' complaints in a special "County Irritant" column. Last month, after two teen-age girls had signed their names to a letter lamenting the dearth of summer jobs, one of the girls became more irritated than ever. She complained that after her letter appeared, a telephone caller had offered her a $65-a-week job as all-around office helper. One of the job requirements: modeling in the nude...