Word: columne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aware that I could not be bought and grateful for my advice, Costello once asked me to lunch: "I know I can't offer you any money, but I had an idea. I wuz readin' in Winchell's column the other day where your brudder was made dramatic critic of the Hollywood Reporter. Now here is my idea. I'm connected with a hotel in Las Vegas. We got a room there where we got entertainment. How would it be if I made your brudder dramatic critic of the hotel...
...teens he fed material to Walter Winchell, also showed so much talent as a cartoonist that the Morning Telegraph hired him to illustrate its "Beau Broadway" column. At 22, he began reviewing plays for the Hollywood Reporter, seldom wasted words. Samples: Strange Fruit-"a lemon"; Billion Dollar Baby-"inflation." When one Broadway producer complained that Hoffman was physically unqualified for his job because he "can't see," Hoffman squinted agreeably and said, "Yes, but there's nothing wrong with my nose...
...paper is intensely local in flavor; it devotes nearly as much space to domestic news as it does to national news. One of its most popular features is a three-to four-column chronicle of Buffalo items, headed "Daily News Summary" and set in eye-straining agate type. Here the News reports birth, traffic mishap, burglary, blaze, marriage license, missing person, court judgment, bankruptcy and stolen car. Deaths, society notices, club meetings and high school athletic contests get more generous shares of space...
Under the heading "They Wounded a Friend," he pointed out in his column that "February is Brotherhood Month." Continued Fuller: "What is this thing called brotherhood, indeed? Whatever has become of the 'do unto others' bit? All I can say, following accusations against me, is that 'My head is bloody but unbowed.' Then, as a quote for MY day let me turn to Zechariah 13:6 with this: I was wounded in the house of my friends...
Today, at 60, Righter has a staff of four secretaries, one mathematician, and two servants, produces a daily column syndicated in 253 U.S. newspapers, writes books (Astrology and You), and at his Victorian Hollywood home throws splashy parties that seem to come from a more storied era when only the screen was silent. Gouda-bodied actresses sight down their cigarette holders at producers; social climbers pretend fascination with semiliterate stars. When Taurus is the sign of the time, there is a live bull on the front lawn, and when Leo reigns, a full-grown lion. For Scorpio last week, there...