Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Herman Fetzer ("Jake Falstaff"), 35, fat, bearded columnist for the Cleveland Press; of pneumonia; in Cleveland...
Alexander Wollcott's retirement from The New Yorker occurred at what many observers considered the peak of an extraordinary career. Once the ranking dramacritic of Manhattan, he had become a sort of glorified gossip columnist, a genteel Walter Winchell, and a peevish prophet of arts & letters. Few men can tell a story as entertainingly as Alexander Woollcott, and few would dare to be as malicious. As Cream of Wheat's "Town Crier" on the radio, he received more "high class" fan mail than any other single entertainer on the Columbia network. Sales of his book, While Rome Burns...
...began next day when Managing Editor Walker at the Mirror began to receive congratulations. First box of cigars came from Lucius Morris Beebe, dandified columnist on the Herald Tribune. Second came from Edward Pierce Mulrooney, onetime New York City Police Commissioner, now chairman of the State Liquor Control Board. A wry telegram from Reporter Forrest Davis read: CONGRATULATIONS STOP GLAD TO SEE YOU ARE AT LAST UP TO YOUR LEVEL...
Handsome General Douglas MacArthur, Chief of Staff, paced his office in the State, War & Navy Building one day last week, nervously puffing cigarets in a long ivory holder. Few blocks away in Room 620 of the Willard Hotel sat Columnist Drew Pearson (Washington Merry-Go-Round) and his lawyer. In Room 415 was General MacArthur's lawyer. Thus was the stage set for settlement of the $1,750,000 libel suit filed by the General last summer against Columnists Pearson & Robert S. Allen for picturing him as a swaggering, supersensitive strutter who pulled social and political wires to advance...
...Last of the Hill-Billies," a skit by H. I. Phillips, New York Sun columnist, showing a cabin full of mountaineers taking potshots at agents, theatrical, not revenue, who have come to kidnap the last of the mountain musicians for the radio and stage...