Green’s Dictionary of Slang

pillar n.

1. (US black) a newspaper column.

[US]Ted Yates This Is New York 4 Oct. [synd.col.] He scanned the ‘pillars’ (columns to you) of his rivals.

2. (US black) in pl., the human legs.

[US] ‘Jiver’s Bible’ in D. Burley Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive.