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After reading your article on Allentown, Pa. Call's Columnist Pumpernickle Bill, I realized that excepting the novels of Helen Martin and Elsie Singmaster, little or no attention has been paid to the peculiar Pennsylvania "Dutch" (or German...
Last week Mrs. Ferguson learned how a son feels about having a columnist in the family. Benton Ferguson, now 27, in the advertising department of Scripps-Howard's Fort Worth Press, wrote for his paper an intimate sketch of his mother which ran alongside her column...
...coast of England, George Abell, onetime society editor of the Washington Daily News, had been living with his five-year-old son Tyler. He sent the child out for a walk with his nurse. Down from the sky slipped an airplane carrying his onetime good friend, Washington Columnist Drew Pearson and Mrs. Pearson, divorced wife of Mr. Abell, mother of the child. They had followed Mr. Abell from the U. S. when they learned he had left through Canada contrary to a court order giving him six months custody of Tyler in the U. S. Mr. & Mrs. Pearson snatched...
When a London gossip writer mentioned Columnist Dorothy Thompson for the Presidency, newshawks scurried to get her reaction. "Ridiculous," she pooh-poohed. "I'm very much for it," declared Husband Sinclair Lewis, "then I can syndicate a column called...
...inspection reveals a few recognizable proper names and some German-sounding words, but all set in English characters. The column carries the head Pumpernickle Bill, with a small drawing of a hayseedy fellow with stringy beard, corncob pipe, pencil behind ear. But no hayseed or pie-eyed compositor is Columnist Pumpernickle Bill. He is serious-minded William Stahley Troxell, 44, an ex-school teacher, now probably the most loved and certainly the best known man around Allentown...