Word: boal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...confused with Mrs. Hunkle, an "old bag" who lives in Sam Boal's column in the New York Post (TIME...
Come Work with Me. Young (33), puckish Correspondent Sam Boal had come up through a succession of routine newspaper jobs. Back from a wartime OWI assignment, he was sounding off about bad foreign-news coverage at a Manhattan cocktail party. The Post's Editor Ted Thackrey heard him, said: "If you're so damn good, come down and work for me." That was a year and a half ago. Now Thackrey calls Boal "one of the best men we have," gives him a free hand and $250 a week (including expenses). But Sam Boal is glad to give...
...London Sam Boal had taken her to the King's birthday party (though he hadn't been able to get her an invitation), stood beside her in slow-moving shopping queues, spent hours with her at her corner...
...Hollywood last week, the Old Bag was indeed bringing in the mail. In a recent column, Boal had answered a question he had often been asked: Is Mrs. Hunkle real? Wrote he: "Sure she exists . . . she lives in perhaps 500,000 houses in London or Manchester or Leeds. . . . I didn't invent her. I merely tried to describe...
...weeks, when Mrs. Hunkle has cooed her fill at Hollywood (and Boal has recovered from a London auto accident), he will return with her to England, continue to report the British through the eyes of a charlady he "dreamed up one morning when I had a hangover and didn't want to write anything heavy...