Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact, Baker and Buchwald are founding members of the American Academy of Humor Columnists, a nonpartisan, nonprofit and otherwise nonexistent organization that hands out awards to each member and encourages the exchange of funny memos. "If we put as much effort into our columns as we have into our correspondence, we'd all be millionaires," says Erma Bombeck, 52, whose madcap suburban comedies are syndicated to 800 newspapers, and who may be a millionaire anyway...
...other member is Gerald Nachman, 41, a former feature writer for the New York News, who began a humor column for the paper in 1973. Since then he has proposed establishment of a home for wed mothers and called for an Anti-Turkey Roll League to slow the advance of that luncheon meat. Like Baker, Nachman has begun to avoid politics. "It doesn't touch people's lives like dealing with the phone company does," he explains. "In the real world, people go for weeks without thinking of Jimmy Carter. As a humor columnist, I wish there were...
Nachman last month left the News to compile a book of his humor, but he will not have to worry about the academy's replacing him. "We're sort of like the oil companies," explains Buchwald...
...keep the rates up and productivity down. There's an agreement in the academy that if any new young humor writer writes us and sends along some of his material-no matter how good it is-we write him back and say, 'You don't have it, kid. Go into advertising.' " Still, there are a number of rising and risible newspaper humorists out there clamoring for attention. Among them...
...Diane White, 35, of the Boston Globe, who can count Baker among her fans. White has been writing a column of gentle, occasionally self-mocking humor since...