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According to Variety, in a front-page "scoop" signed by Editor Abel Green, rich Marshall Field was waving his bankroll under Winchell's nose, to lure him away from Hearst and into the Chicago Sun, as Field had lured Cartoonist Milton Caniff from McCormick & Patterson. The bait: $200,000 a year, double Winchell's income from Hearst...
...that "W.W." was anxious to switch, wrote his crony Abel Green. But for the first time in 17 years Winchell was "sans contract." He had told the publisher of Hearst's New York Mirror that if The Chief "wants to keep me interested," perhaps they'd better talk things over. As matters stood, the pay from his syndicated column was chicken feed for Turkey Gobbler Winchell: on the radio, where he sells lotion, he was getting $7,500 a week, a $130,000-a-year raise over 1946. His gross income: $502,000 a year...
Parlor Story is about a high-minded professor (Walter Abel) who wants to become president of his university. But he is soon snarled up in the political opportunism of the state governor, the wiles of an unscrupulous newspaper publisher, and the parlor tricks of his own meddling wife. All this becomes far too contrived to be credible, and not cleverly enough contrived to be fun. Mr. McCleery writes as an intelligent man of good will, but he tackles too many subjects for one play, and tackles them too undramatically for the theater. It is when Parlor Story has least...
Variety's show-wise Editor Abel Green summed up in typical Variety staccato: "1947 marks the great French invasion. It's a switcheroo on Yank tourism to Gay Paree. [Miss Boyer] packs herself to a socko sum total. The Francophiles . . . were sampling the grape like it was.7-Up. . . . Miss Boyer really rings the bell. They'll be waiting for Chevalier like French postcards...
...page, 3,000-word guide to U.S.A.-Slang. The lexicographers: Danish Newsmen Victor Skaarup and Kris Winther. To keep up to the minute and sometimes an hour or so ahead, Skaarup and Winther had listened to U.S. newscasts and radio comedians, swapped letters with Variety's Editor Abel Green and studied his slangy tradepaper of "show biz." (Said Green, washing his hands of some of their definitions: "They're talking smörgasbord slanguage...