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...David Charnay was sitting in a midtown Manhattan spot last week, tending to his business (interviewing a Broadway character for the New York Daily News) when a friend phoned with a hot tip. There'd been a brawl over at La Conga and-guess who-Peggy Hopkins Joyce was mixed up in it. Reporter Charnay flagged his office and went after it. Rewrite Man Henry Lee got busy at the telephone. Next day their joint story-the kind of story only the Daily News could or would do-ran three columns, a sort of extra dividend that gave...
Peggy's story was worth one line in a gossip column until the News went to work on it: a stranger had planted kisses on Peggy Joyce's shoulder, proposed to her, and had been knocked cold by her escort, Comedian Joey Adams. Methodically, Legman David Charnay tracked down all hands, helped them say quotable things...
...body had landed in the lap of a lady two tables away, so Charnay looked her up too. She was one Marion Grimes Langford, prominent widow (of a 1945 murder victim...
...Hearstian tabloid Daily Mirror, recently put under the direction of Jacquin Leonard ("Jack") Lait, oldtime Hearst thrill-writer. Fortnight ago the Mirror began a six-part daily feature called "Fiorenza's Own Amazing Story." Authorship was credited to "John Fiorenza, as told to David B. Charnay, Mirror staff correspondent." Gist was that the upholsterer's assistant had nourished an unrequited but undiscouraged love for Mrs. Titterton, who had previously rejected his advances, but, as an aspiring writer, had not hesitated to "pump" him for "copy...