Word: columns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...damned insulting to spend over a column on Champagne Charlie and not find space to chronicle such an outstanding British aviation achievement as the record-breaking flight of Britain's F.D.-2. Had the feat been performed in an American jet, I am sure we should have had the pilot's face beaming at us from your cover...
...speed with which the curtain of murderous secrecy was being torn from past Communist pretension was making fools of foreign Communist leaders. In Rome Palmiro Togliatti, facing a lethargic Italian Communist National Council meeting, swept his arms towards a picture of Stalin hanging on a marble column, shouted: "They say we have dethroned a saint. I say to them we have never had saints ... He has conquered his place in history ... as builder and defender of Socialist society...
Born 41 years ago in New York City's Lower East Side slums, Victor Riesel grew up among militant unionists, remembers often seeing his father brought home bleeding from skirmishes with power-hungry elements in the garment trade. In his 14 years of turning out a labor column, now distributed by the Hall Syndicate to the New York Daily Mirror and 192 other newspapers, he has aimed the acid of his pen consistently at Communism, racketeering and racial bias in U.S. unions. His words have often been as hard as his father's fists. Typical opening...
...Soviet realist of them all, Stalin's favorite portrait painter and president of the Soviet Academy of Art, Alexander M. Gerasimov, 74, whose heroic, mural-sized painting of Stalin and Marshal Voroshilov on the Kremlin ramparts recently disappeared from the Tretyakov State Art Museum. In a signed three-column article in Sovyetskaya Kultura, Gerasimov publicly confessed some errors of the bad old days: "The cult of the individual has done considerable harm . . . Recollecting certain of my works of the past years I must admit that even in them has been reflected the negative influence." Calling for "a fire...
...brief and easy confirmation of my present statement that I was never a Fascist, you may refer to the New York Times of February 26, 1941, page 13, Column 1. Therein was reported a speech by then Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes, calling me a fascist. The Times asked me for a reply, which I gave and which they published. In it, I said that President Roosevelt, and not I, was then America's Number 1 fascist...