Word: columnists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Surrealist Salvador Dali, filling in for Columnist Leonard Lyons, told the world about his surrealist friendship with Movie Producer Jack Warner. When they first met, since neither spoke the other's language, they communicated by simply saying, "Petite marmite!" Dali went on: "Every time that this same idea mysteriously put our two souls in communication, one or the other of us ... would pronounce the magic phrase, 'Petite Marmite!' ... On moonlight nights we used to ... visit a gigantic spider. . . . From time to time I get a telegram which says 'Spider,' and I wire right back...
Bernard De Voto, 51, Harper's columnist and literary historian (Mark Twain's America, Minority Report), won appointment to the Department of the Interior's Advisory Board on National Parks, Historic Sites, Buildings and Monuments...
Arrived: junketing Columnist Earl Wilson; at the Ernest Hemingway farm outside Havana. Among the Wilson news flashes to the home folks: that the Hemingways now have 22 cats in their house, all in one room, and "Sure," says Hemingway, "we're going to call the room 'the cat house...
...play gets its best results by reaching not across the centuries but across the Irish Sea: it does a juicy job on a London chatter columnist whose skin is even thicker than his skull. Unfortunately the Londoner, like much else in the play, turns up for no reason-and turns up twice...
Mike Romanoff, Hollywood restaurateur turned columnist, advised Eric Johnston, a former vacuum-cleaner salesman: "I was once a vacuum-cleaner salesman myself, and I can tell you it's nice outdoor work. Go back, Mr. Johnston, before . . . it's too late...