Word: columnists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elsewhere in a world whose humor had turned to New Yorker sophistication (which Ade liked), and to the staccato gag-making of the Red Skeltons, Jack Bennys and Bob Hopes (which he disliked), George Ade was an almost forgotten name. Columnist Leonard Lyons reported that Humorist Bob Benchley had to repair to the Stork Club to forget, after hearing a CBS announcer tell about the death of "the Indiana writer, George...
Theodore Dreiser, author of the galumphing American Tragedy, who last week told Columnist Earl Wilson: "I hope [the servicemen] react by ballot or by revolution...
Ernest Hemingway, sporting a lush bush, was nightclub-sitting with Fellow Author John Steinbeck, who has just started to become a beaver, when (reported New York Post Columnist Leonard Lyons) they were asked: "Why the beards?" Steinbeck: "Obviously, an affectation." Hemingway: "Obviously, to cover a rash...
...Yellow Canary (RKO-Radio) is porcelain-jawed Anna Neagle sacrificing her good name by flashlighting the Luftwaffe's way to Buckingham Palace. Just to watch reputable Cinemactress Neagle play a fifth columnist for half a picture-length without once tipping the audience a wink or an apology is rather novel. More traditional kinds of suspense involve saboteurs, spies, counterspies and a plot to blow up Halifax. There is also a stunningly funny old comic (Margaret Rutherford), playing the sort of tetched, tweedy Englishwoman whose lightest whisper is a yawp. As a spy-thriller, the picture would be no better...
Awful Truth. In Manhattan, New York Post Columnist Leonard Lyons reported that in California a psychiatric patient was asked if he were Napoleon. He craftily said "No." A lie detector showed he was lying...