Word: itemize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yucatan or Honduras"). But Publisher Wilkerson, who once ran a speakeasy and later the Trocadero nightclub and is now part owner of L'Aiglon and LaRue, is a man of unshakable principle: never knock an advertiser unless he forgets to advertise. When Billy retracted an accurate Gwynn item in 1937 because it offended an advertiser, Edie quit. For 4½ years she went into semiretirement; she "threw hundreds of sensational parties," which usually found her at the piano-"a lethal weapon in my hands." In 1942, bursting with dammed-up gags and gossip, Edie went back to columning...
Edie's hard-hitting column often sounds libelous. But apparently she has the facts behind her strongest innuendos, because no one has ever sued. Yet she rarely checks an item. If someone gives her a wrong steer, she crosses the tipster's name off her list. She is more often in bad taste than in hot water. For syndication, Edie blue-pencils double-meaning quips and purely local items (sample kill: "A starlet is worried that her husband has been untrue. Her baby doesn't look a bit like...
...Item: that running backs are about as plentiful on the home side of Soldiers Field as ospreys in the Gobi Desert. Harvard gained a net four (4) yards rushing Saturday, and except for Hal Moffie it was frequently hard to tell which way the backs were running...
...Item: that without Jim Kenary in the game, Harlow's passers could probably come as close to their targets by kicking the ball as by throwing...
Quarter backing Weak Item: that quarter backing for the Crimson is either inept or too deep for the average man to understand. Saturday Kenny O'Donnell, who had already missed with two point blank range tosses, elected to throw another on his own 34 with third down and less than a yard to go. The pass went into the small of Sam Adams back...