Word: columns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even for incisive commentary on the affairs of the University. Included, usually, are a laborious compendium of the University's financial proceedings, a superficial rundown of activities in the college and the various graduate schools--with particular attention given to social clubs and athletic teams--and an obituary column for University notables. They have been dull, unenlightening, but most of all, uncontroversial...
SING IT, RUDY, BUT CUT THE JOKES ran the headline over a column in the Phoenix Gazette, which went on to suggest that antique Entertainer Rudy Vallee, 66, could improve his nightclub appearances measurably by canning the comedy. The reproof brought a straight-faced letter of rebuttal from Rudy, who insisted that his singing now makes audiences rebel, and that he is making his living primarily as a gagster. One recent singing LP sold only 10,000 copies, Vallee reported, while his comedy album has sold 400,000. As for nightclub fans: "When I began to sing, they invariably began...
After months of planning, the New York Daily News decided last week not to publish an afternoon paper after all. For the most part, advertising-agency executives had liked the six-column, standard-size dummy; union officials promised not to be obstructive. But that was not enough for the combined directors of the News and the Chicago Tribune. Said Executive Vice President Winfield H. James: "An analysis of all the complex factors proved, in the end, to be discouraging. When rising costs were measured against potential advertising and circulation revenues, it became clear that the projected newspaper would...
Reporters are encouraged to express their personal opinions. Hope, for example, wrote a column last week suggesting that Romney may not be quite the bumbler the press makes him out to be. "One might ask," he wrote, "whether Governor Nelson Rockefeller is a simpleton because he winks and says...
...traffic hadn't improved. The roads out of Saigon are long extended sheets of olive-drab and camouflaged steel armaments--tanks, truck convoys, rifles, soldiers, fortified bridges, occasional burnt-out vehicles. Everything and everybody had an edgy dug-in look. In any direction you looked you could find a column of smoke or a helicopter hovering over a fixed spot...