Word: abell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Whitey Abel peered out at the track through high-powered binoculars. The chestnut head of a horse focused in his glass. For a minute Whitey felt as if he were watching a race run long...
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...
...facts behind the story were something else again, too. Oh, the story was all true, said Abel Green-in the sense that he hadn't made it all up. But the story of Marshall Field's "offer," which Variety had attributed to "the Chicago Sun syndicate's spokesman," had actually come from Winchell himself. Had there really been an offer? Said Harry Baker, head of Marshall Field's Chicago Sun syndicate: yes, he'd had a chat with Winchell-at the request of a pal of Winchell's. "I've given no thought...
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...