Word: columns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...syndicated column, fast-talking (about 215 words a minute) radio-TV Gossipist Walter Winchell gave an unusually candid explanation of his delivery speed: "The reason I talk fast is that if I talk slowly people will be able to hear what I say and find out how dull and unimportant it really...
Marie Winn '58, Miss Radcliffe '54, and Tonie M. Schildge '57 give Cambridge Chronicle columnist Marie D. Tuttle a closer look at 'Cliffe appearances. Miss Tuttle attacked Radcliffe girls last week in her column for being "an-neat...
...CRIMSON welcomes expression of reader opinion in its Mall column. Last year, over 100 letters were received, ranging from impassioned defenses of Senator McCarthy to jibes at the prospects of a maidless College. The CRIMSON was at once called Fascist and Communist for its stand on one particular issue. Letters should be under 400 words, and the editors reserve the right to abridge them if space limitation makes this necessary. No changes is context will be made, however. Letters must be signed, but names can be withheld by request...
...column "Cincinnatus," Segal plays both big brother and conscience to the Past's readers. His mild, low-keyed column shuns gossip, rarely stirs up sensation, never thunders. Instead, he may tell of a child with cerebral palsy, the of a 90-year-old friend, the good work of a priest he knows. Then again, he may just write about a pleasant, sunny day. Says Segal: "Cincinnatus looks with some tolerance on the sinner, with compassion on the pauper, with a sense of humor at the millionaire, and attempts to understand even the murderer . . . This is the world with...
Within three years he was city editor. A year later, hating his desk job, he went back to reporting, started his column in 1921. Soon he became known as a friend of the down-and-out. Hoboes tapped him for "coffee money" so often that Post staffers put a sign next to his desk proclaiming Segal "King of Vagabonds." (His penchant for giving away his money finally got to the point where his wife put in a rationing plan-just enough for carfare, lunch and two daily glasses of sherry.) Between columns he covered news stories, and the friends that...