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...Chicago Tribune's Robert Rutherford ("Bert") McCormick called her "the ablest woman publisher this country has ever had." She won the Pulitzer Prize for stories that sent a racketeering labor leader to jail and helped to force a Republican national committeeman's resignation. She thinks the New York Times is the greatest paper in the world, but resents "trying to find a good murder buried on page...
...practices the same brand of personal journalism that her irascible and admiring cousin Bert carries to an extreme, although she disagrees with him on almost every political issue. Most important of all, she has a touch of the journalistic genius of her late father, Captain Joseph Medill Patterson, the nonconformist millionaire, who founded the New York Daily News, made it the biggest and one of the best-edited papers in the U.S., and became the father of tabloid journalism in America...
...much. Groucho Marx can get away with it but me. I couldn't. I'm not that good." But if he has to choose, Cullen would rather be snide than syrupy. He has had to lick another tendency-overenthusiasm: "You know. Bert Parks and John Reed King started this routine of building up a climax and shouting at the correct answer, screaming 'That's right! That's right!' I got over that, finally...
Next week, while Bert Parks is on vacation, Cullen will fill in for him on ABC-TV's Break the Bank. A week later he will start on the CBS-Radio version of Stop the Music. Next month, when Place the Face leaves the air, he will move to a new M.C. job on CBS-TV's Name That Tune. He has a filmed TV question-and-answer show called Professor Yes 'n' No that is seen in 30 cities, and coming up this fall is another radio show with Arlene Francis...
Summer Holiday (Tues. & Thurs. 7:45 p.m., CBS) features Singer Betty Ann Grove, who used to be a TV colleague of Bert Parks and has absorbed much of his manic, eye-batting vitality. The co-star is Singer Merv Griffin. The show was created by Irving Mansfield, who last summer created almost exactly the same show for the same sponsor, but it was then called Summertime, U.S.A. and starred Singers Teresa Brewer and Mel Torme...