Word: columnists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...large breakfast washed down with sherry, had a massage, started on Martinis at 1, and capped them with "a bounteous lunch" at 1:30, drank cocktails or sherry from 5 until dinner at 8, "lots of champagne at dinner," then brandy, and worked until 3 or 4 a.m. Wrote Columnist McCormick: "The colonel is a fair trencherman himself, but the Englishman's capacity amazed...
Sound from the Neck. To nobody's great surprise, the lone journalistic voice raised in all-out defense of a ban on pretrial reporting came from Columnist Westbrook Pegler, who is having his own court troubles (see below). Said Pegler in his column: "The contention that [such a ban] would violate freedom of the press is only a neck-sound unrelated to the heart of the subject...
When a federal jury in Manhattan awarded $175,001 to Reporter Quentin Reynolds in his libel suit against Westbrook Pegler, it intended to punish Columnist Pegler and his publishing sponsors within the court's jurisdiction. It had deliberated more than twelve hours over the charge of Judge Edward Weinfeld pointing out the difference between punitive damages and "compensatory" damages, i.e., those to make up for any loss in Reynolds' earning power. Said the court: "Where it is established that a defendant was inspired by actual malice . . . the jury may award . . . punitive damages ... or 'spite money...
...fishing. For the blind, there were special lines with tufts of silk placed at regular intervals to show how much line was out; for one-armed fishermen there were special devices to wind the reels. Both the expedition-and the fishing aids-were the productions of Columnist Ralph Alexander ("Andy") Anderson of Scripps-Howard's Houston Press. A little...
...appearance on television, unless I am asked again when I am 80. Now I must go. My friends would celebrate because I am in my 76th year. A strange reason. I will celebrate, too. I won't be late. I am never late." -In a television interview with Columnist Drew Pearson, Adlai Stevenson confessed that G.O.P. foreign policy is a perplexing thing to him, often leaves him mulling over who's really running the State Department. "We sometimes wonder who the Secretary of State might be," he said. "I was going to say Secretary of State (William...