Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...window. He became a regular visitor, and soon formed a literary friendship with Gordon C. Cairne, the shop's proprietor. In his autobiography Aiken speaks of his visits to the Grolier as some of the most refreshing moments spent in the Square. Joseph Alsop, New York Herald Tribune columnist, spent his undergraduate hours slouched in the shop's overstuffed sofa. Cairnic remembers him as "one of the fattest Freshmen ever to enter Harvard." T. S. Eliot was surrounded by querying students the first time he entered the shop. He answered a few of their questions and scurried...
...case a final fillip, the defense couldn't find one of its witnesses, 19-year-old Grace Appel, an old East Side chum of Pat Ward (who was born Sandra Wisotsky). Not until the opposing lawyers had delivered their summations did Miss Appel appear in court, convoyed by Columnist Walter Winchell, who had thoughtfully extracted an exclusive interview before persuading her to come out of hiding. Unfortunately for the defense (and for Winchell), however, "Mystery Witness" Appel had nothing much to say, the chief mystery being why the defense had bothered to call...
Marriage Revealed. Sheilah Graham, fortyish, onetime London chorus girl turned Hollywood gossip columnist; and Wojciechowicz S. Wojtkiewicz, 35, a director of prison recreation programs for the California department of corrections; she for the third time, he for the first: in Ventura County, Calif...
...Hollywood Columnist Sidney Skolsky, currently producing a two-dimension screen biography of Eddie Cantor, concluded: "The movie industry, like a man running to a quack doctor, tried to find a quick cureall: a hypo of 3-D and wide screen (e.g., Cinerama). Both . . . have been around for some time, but the movie industry ignored them because it was feeling great, breaking all records at the box office . . . When the stuff wears off . . . the industry will still have to face and fight its original fear and frustration...
Washroom Beat. Forbidden the courtroom, more than 60 newsmen stood watch outside, pounced on everyone who came out the door. Even Columnist Winchell was on hand quipping that Judge Valente apparently thought "little girls should be obscene and not heard," and feeling right at home in what he called an atmosphere of "opened transoms and peepholes...