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33-463: Cristián Warnken (born January 28, 1961) is a Chilean literature professor, columnist , interviewer , radio personality , podcaster , and television presenter . Similarly, he is the leader of Amarillos por Chile . In 2020 he interviewed President Sebastián Piñera . Warnken has been dean of the Faculty of Education and Humanities of Universidad del Desarrollo . He was elected as a permanent member of

66-466: A South peopled with honorable citizens, charming eccentrics, and loyal, subservient blacks, but at their best the Judge Priest stories are dramatic and compelling, using a wealth of precisely rendered detail to evoke a powerful mood." Among Cobb's other books are the humorous Speaking of Operations (1916), and an anti- prohibition ode to bourbon , Red Likker (1929). Cobb also wrote short stories in

99-401: A celebrity status and used their syndicated columns as a springboard to move into radio and television. In some cases, such as Winchell and Parsons, their radio programs were quite similar in format to their newspaper columns. Rona Barrett began as a Hollywood gossip columnist in 1957, duplicating her print tactics on television by the mid-1960s. One of the more famous syndicated columnists of

132-545: A column can prove so popular it becomes the basis for an expansion into an entire magazine. For instance, when Cyrus Curtis founded the Tribune and Farmer in 1879, it was a four-page weekly with an annual subscription rate of 50 cents. He introduced a women's column by his wife, Louise Knapp Curtis, and it proved so popular that in 1883 he started publishing it as a separate monthly supplement, Ladies Journal and Practical Housekeeper , edited by Louise Curtis. With 25,000 subscribers by

165-591: A columnist for the Daily Mail on being forced out of office. Carl Rowan was a famous black columnist who wrote for The Mineapollis Tribune. His articles about racism and international affairs made him famous across the USA. In 1961, he was asked by the president John F. Kennedy to join his administration. He then became a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Public Affairs. That was all made possible due to his interview with Mr. Kennedy that happened year before. In pop culture

198-518: A direct connection at Fulton with trains to and from New Orleans. Cobb wrote humorous stories set in Kentucky, and he is considered part of the American literary regionalism school. These stories were first collected in the book Old Judge Priest (1915), whose title character was based on a prominent West Kentucky judge named William Pitman Bishop. Joel Chandler Harris wrote of these tales, "Cobb created

231-400: A good drink. The cartoon The Woods Are Full of Cuckoos caricatures Cobb as "Irvin S. Frog". Cobb has been described as having a round shape, bushy eyebrows, full lips, and a triple chin, with a cigar always hanging from his mouth. He married the former Laura Spencer Baker of Savannah, Georgia . Their daughter, Elisabeth Cobb (born 1902, died 1959), was also an author. She published

264-506: A national audience of more than two million readers, and was widely reprinted in the black press. In the midst of covering the 1920 Democratic Convention, Cobb received 1.5 votes on the 23rd Presidential ballot. Several of Cobb's stories were adapted as silent movies. He also wrote the screen titles for other movies, including the Jackie Coogan movie, Peck's Bad Boy (1921). With the advent of sound, more of his stories were adapted for

297-867: A second visit to France to cover the Great War, Cobb publicized the achievements of the unit known as the Harlem Hellfighters , most notably, Croix de Guerre recipients Henry Johnson and Needham Roberts . His article "Young Black Joe," published on August 24, 1918, in The Saturday Evening Post and later republished in Cobb's book, The Glory of the Coming , highlighted the discipline and courage displayed by black American soldiers fighting in Europe during World War I . The three-page article and half-page photograph reached

330-513: Is a collection of selections from three decades of his columns. H. Allen Smith 's first humor book, Low Man on a Totem Pole (1941), and his two following books, were so popular during World War II that they kept Smith on the New York Herald Tribune' s Best Seller List for 100 weeks and prompted a collection of all three in 3 Smiths in the Wind (1946). When Smith's column, The Totem Pole ,

363-479: Is new", Hallam Walker Davis wrote in a book, The Column , which was published in 1926. "It has had the advantage of high-powered promotion. It is still riding on the crest of the first big wave its own splash sent out." But Mr. Davis did think that in a decade or two the newspapers might be promoting their columns along with their comic strips. The World had started the ball rolling with billboard advertising of Heywood Broun 's "It Seems to Me". The McNaught Syndicate

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396-476: The 1920s and 1930s, O. O. McIntyre , declined offers to do a radio series because he felt it would interfere and diminish the quality of writing in his column, "New York Day by Day". Franklin Pierce Adams and O. O. McIntyre both collected their columns into a series of books, as did other columnists. McIntyre's book, The Big Town: New York Day by Day (1935) was a bestseller. Adams' The Melancholy Lute (1936)

429-545: The 1930s for two feature films directed by John Ford . Cobb was the second of four children born to Kentucky natives in Paducah, Kentucky . His maternal grandfather, Reuben Saunders , M.D., is credited with discovering in 1873 that injections of morphine - atropine were useful in treating cholera . Cobb was raised in Paducah, and the events and people of his childhood became the basis for much of his later works. Later in life, Cobb

462-469: The Academia Chilena de Ciencias Sociales, Políticas y Morales in 2022. This article about a Chilean poet is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Columnist Newspaper columnists of the 1930s and 1940s, such as Franklin Pierce Adams (also known as FPA), Nick Kenny , John Crosby , Jimmie Fidler , Louella Parsons , Drew Pearson , Ed Sullivan and Walter Winchell , achieved

495-723: The John Church Company. Cobb was inducted into the Kentucky Writers' Hall of Fame on February 2, 2017. When Cobb died in New York City in 1944, his body was sent to Paducah for cremation . His ashes were placed under a dogwood tree. The granite boulder marking his remains is inscribed "Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb 1876-1944 Back Home". Cobb wrote a letter detailing his desired funeral arrangements. The document reads in part: Above all I want no long faces and no show of grief at

528-433: The burying ground. Kindly observe the final wishes of the undersigned and avoid reading the so-called Christian burial service which, in view of the language employed in it, I regard as one of the most cruel and paganish things inherited by our forebears from our remote pagan ancestors. In deference to the faith of our dear mother who was through her lifetime a loyal though never bigoted communicant of that congregation, perhaps

561-600: The current pastor of the First Presbyterian Church would consent to read the Twenty-third Psalm , which was her favorite passage in the Scriptures and is mine since it contains no charnel words, no morbid mouthings about corruption and decay and, being mercifully without creed or dogma, carries no threat of eternal hell-fire for those parties we do not like, no direct promise of a heaven which, if one may judge by

594-583: The end of its first year, it was such a success that Curtis sold Tribune and Farmer to put his energy into the new publication, which became the Ladies' Home Journal . There is sometimes crossover between being a politician and a columnist. For example, Boris Johnson had a column in the Daily Telegraph , was elected a member of the UK Parliament , became Mayor of London then UK Prime Minister , then became

627-548: The highest-paid staff reporter in the United States. During the murder trial of Harry Kendall Thaw in 1907, Cobb coined the term " sob sister " to describe the women reporters who were covering the trial. Cobb joined the staff of the magazine The Saturday Evening Post in 1911, and covered the Great War for the magazine. At the same time, he wrote a book about his experiences, published in 1915, titled Paths Of Glory . After

660-462: The international economy to exploding toilets." Barry has collected his columns into a series of successful books. He stopped writing his nationally syndicated weekly column in 2005, and the Miami Herald now offers on its website a lengthy selection of past columns by Barry. In 1950, Editor & Publisher looked back at the newspaper columnists of the 1920s: "Feature service of various sorts

693-639: The majesty of the rolling, sonorous periods without being shocked by distressing allusions and harrowing references. The World War II Liberty Ship SS  Irvin S. Cobb was named in his honor. Following the Second World War, the Illinois Central Railroad named a passenger train operating between Louisville and Memphis, via Cobb's hometown, Paducah, the Irvin S. Cobb . The train carried timetable numbers 103 southbound and 104 northbound and made

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726-557: The media and artist networks. "If Prohibition is a noble experiment," he said in one, "then the San Francisco fire and the Galveston flood should be listed among the noble experiments of our national history." As part of his AAPA efforts he published the anti-Prohibition novel Red Likker . After the repeal of Prohibition, Frankfort Distilleries recruited him to compile a recipe book to remind consumers who were out of practice how to mix

759-531: The nation's youngest managing news editor at age nineteen. He later worked at the Louisville Evening Post for a year and a half. His anecdotal memoir-cum-autobiography, Exit Laughing , published in 1941, includes a firsthand account of the assassination of Kentucky Governor William Goebel in 1900 and the trials of the killers. He wrote numerous series in periodicals, and also collaborated on dramatic productions. After moving to New York in 1904, Cobb

792-437: The novel She Was a Lady and the nonfiction My Wayward Parent (1945), a book about her father. Her first husband was Frank Michler Chapman, Jr. , son of the ornithologist Frank Michler Chapman . Cobb's granddaughter was Buff Cobb , a television actress of the early 1950s. She married journalist Mike Wallace as his second wife. Cobb was honored in 1915 with the march "The War Correspondent" by G. E. Holmes, published by

825-514: The people who are surest of going there, must be a powerfully dull place, populated to a considerable and uncomfortable degree by prigs, time-servers and unpleasantly aggressive individuals. Hell may have a worse climate but undoubtedly the company is sprightlier. The Catholics, with their genius for stage-management, handle this detail better. The officiating clergyman speaks in Latin and the parishioners, being unacquainted with that language are impressed by

858-604: The profession of 'columnist' has been seen as glamorous, and is often used as the career of choice for fictional characters such as Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City , Rory Gilmore in Gilmore Girls , Andie Anderson in How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days and dozens of others. National day of Columnists is on April 18. Irvin S. Cobb Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb (June 23, 1876 – March 11, 1944)

891-541: The screen, including The Woman Accused (1933), featuring young Cary Grant . John Ford twice made movies based on Cobb's Judge Priest stories: Judge Priest (1934) featured Will Rogers in the title role. The Sun Shines Bright (1953) was based on his short stories "The Sun Shines Bright", "The Mob from Massac", and "The Lord Provides". Cobb also had an acting career, acting in ten movies between 1932 and 1938. He won major roles in such movies as Pepper , Everybody's Old Man (1936), and Hawaii Calls (1938). He

924-599: Was also host of the 7th Academy Awards in 1935. In 1919, Cobb was recruited by former U.S. Navy officer and lawyer Capt. W.H. Slayton to become chairman of the Authors and Artists Committee of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment (AAPA). The Association based their opposition on the misuse of national government power over U.S. citizens. As chairman, Cobb helped extend coverage of their message through

957-507: Was an American author, humorist, editor and columnist from Paducah, Kentucky , who relocated to New York in 1904, living there for the remainder of his life. He wrote for the New York World , Joseph Pulitzer 's newspaper, as the highest paid staff reporter in the United States. Cobb also wrote more than 60 books and 300 short stories. Some of his works were adapted for silent movies. Several of his Judge Priest short stories were adapted in

990-534: Was hired by the Evening Sun . The publication sent him to Portsmouth, New Hampshire to cover the Russian-Japanese peace conference . His dispatches from the negotiations, emphasizing the personalities involved (including President Theodore Roosevelt ), were published across the country with the title "Making Peace at Portsmouth." They earned him a job offer from Joseph Pulitzer 's New York World and he became

1023-478: Was nicknamed "Duke of Paducah." Cobb was educated in public and private elementary schools, and then entered William A. Cade's Academy intending to pursue a law career. When Cobb was 16, his father became an alcoholic , after the death of his grandfather. Forced to quit school and find work, Cobb began his writing career. Cobb started in journalism with the Paducah Daily News at age seventeen, and became

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1056-718: Was sitting pretty with O. O. McIntyre, Will Rogers and Irvin S. Cobb on its list. The New York Herald Tribune offered Don Marquis and Franklin P. Adams rhymed satirically in "The Conning Tower" for the New York World Syndicate. "A Line o' Type or Two", Bert Leston Taylor's verse column in the Chicago Tribune , was now being done by Richard Henry Little. Other offerings: humorous sketches by Damon Runyon ; O. Henry stories; editorials by Arthur Brisbane ; Ring Lardner letter; "Rippling Rhymes", by Walt Mason ; literary articles by H. L. Mencken . In certain instances,

1089-573: Was syndicated by United Features, he told Time : Just between you and me, it's tough. A typewriter can be a pretty formidable contraption when you sit down in front of it and say: "All right, now I'm going to be funny." The writing of French humor columnist Alain Rémond has been collected in books. The Miami Herald promoted humor columnist Dave Barry with this description: "Dave Barry has been at The Miami Herald since 1983. A Pulitzer Prize winner for commentary, he writes about issues ranging from

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