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Crumped Arthur Brisbane in his Hearst colyum: "The New York World is 'dead as mutton...
...Gilbert Wolff Kahn, 27, son of Otto Herman Kahn. A quiet, unobtrusive, solid young man, he exhibits none of the grand manner of his father, has no publicized talents like his young brother, Roger Wolff Kahn, who leads orchestras, composes songs, flies airplanes, writes a newspaper colyum. At Princeton, Gilbert was business editor of the Daily Princetonian. He has worked for Equitable Trust Co. and in various foreign banks...
...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...
...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...