pillar (was: Champagne Cholly)

[Mark Mandel]

     [Barry wrote:]
>    The popularity of the term, it must be admitted, is due in a great
part
>to Lucius Beebe, who started using it often in writing his weekly pillar
>  in the _Herald Tribune_ on cooking, drinking and the best place to buy
>mauve garters.

     [Bruce Dykes commented:]
>>>>>
I find this use of 'pillar' interesting. Was 'pillar'='newspaper column'
ever widespread newspaper jargon, or is this an isolated incident?
<<<<<

I know I've seen it used elsewhere, though I can't remember where. I think
of it as old-fashioned, as from Winchell's time or before.

                  Mark A. Mandel : Senior Linguist
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 320 Nevada St., Newton, MA 02460, USA : http://www.dragonsys.com




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>    The popularity of the term, it must be admitted, is due in a great
part
to Lucius Beebe, who started using it often in writing his weekly pillar
>  in the _Herald Tribune_ on cooking, drinking and the best place to buy
mauve garters.  This was one instance where Mr. Beebe, ordinarily

I find this use of 'pillar' interesting. Was 'pillar'='newspaper column'
ever widespread newspaper jargon, or is this an isolated incident?

I tried looking for some lists of newspaper/journalist jargon, and didn't
find much online, and the two online dictionaries I checked didn't have
this
sense at all, neither of them being the OED.

Bruce