Word: colyums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like all his leading New York contemporaries except Heywood Broun, no native New Yorker. In 1903 he inherited a colyum, "A Little About Everything" in the Chicago Journal. Next year he went to the New York Evening Mail to conduct a feature named, by Publisher Henry L. Stoddard, "Always in Good Humor." When in 1913 he transferred to the Tribune, he thought up his heading "The Conning Tower" to be non committal, "so that whatever I printed would not seem incongruous." The Tower was transplanted in 1922 to the World, where it shared the feature page with Heywood Broun...
...poles of an electric cell are Calvin Coolidge and Alfred Emanuel Smith. The nearer the parallel of their careers, the more emphatic the difference in the men. Last week Citizen Smith followed another turn in Citizen Coolidge's tracks, signed a contract to write a newspaper colyum. Under the probable heading "The State of the Nation," Colyumist Smith will write (beginning Jan. 4) for McNaught Syndicate between 1,000 and 1,500 words for each Sunday-the one day of the week when Colyumist Coolidge does not appear. He may discuss "politics or any other subject," and, according...
...bagging of Colyumist Smith ended six years of persistent stalking by McNaught's General Manager Charles V. McAdam. The fight with rival syndicates was bitter at the finish. Hardly was the ink dry on the contract when orders for the Smith colyum began to pour in. Among the first to buy it: Scranton Republican, Boston Globe, Louisville Herald-Post...
Until last fortnight the Coolidge colyum appeared on page 1 of the Boston Post under the Bostonesque heading: "Thinking Things over With Calvin Coolidge." A few days before Election Day-with its local Democratic landslide-the Post relegated Mr. Coolidge to Page 31. Since then, only a little boxed front-page notice has appeared to tell Colyumist Coolidge's largest Massachusetts audience where he may be found...
...contrast between the Frumkin homelife and the Franklin bullfights and ballyhoo inspired two Manhattan colyum-ists to comment. Heywood Broun of the Telegram wrote: "Suppose you were one of Sidney's relatives. What would you suggest [for his entertainment]? I will endeavor to enter into the fantasy myself...