Word: columnists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...career as a speed-champion stenographer to a career as one of the most successful songwriters in Tin Pan Alley history. He ran on to fortune and a Broadway winner's fame as a nightclub proprietor and as one of the greatest showmen of his time. As a columnist (at roughly $52,000 a year), he is currently showing impressive stamina and speed in a fiercely competitive branch of journalism. After only nine months of newspaper distribution, Columnist Billy Rose's "Pitching Horseshoes" has landed in some 145 papers with an estimated 18 million (Billy's estimate...
...Toronto last week, the Globe & Mail's Columnist Jim Coleman wrote her an open letter: "We read in the public prints where some acorn named Avery Umbrage, who lives down in the Excited States, is trying to have you expelled from the amateur ranks because you accepted a nice yellow Buick phaeton as a gift. . . ." Amidst the commotion, Prime Minister Mackenzie King reassured his people; he guaranteed to the Commons that everything possible was being done to safeguard Barbara...
...could easily afford to admit some boners. In the Bay area, parrot-beaked Herb Caen, 31, has a more devoted following than any syndicated columnist, and in the Chronicle he far outdraws Drew Pearson and Billy Rose, the only outsiders Editor Paul Smith prints. Smith has found out what many papers could confirm if they only tried,: a good local column doesn't have to be brilliantly written (Caen's isn't) to outshine all the syndicators that money...
Caen Is Able. Herb was a 20-year-old police reporter and part-time radio columnist for the Sacramento Union when his juvenile gibes at radio caught Smith's eye in 1936. When Smith interviewed him, Caen thought it wise to add three years to his age ("I didn't know he was only 27 himself...
...make Caen's kind of news. Without benefit of the pressagents who save legwork for Hollywood and Manhattan gossips, Caen created a cafe society of his own. He haunted nightspots, cocktail parties and theater openings, built an army of volunteer tipsters. Unlike most of his Broadway rivals, Columnist Caen rarely had anything malicious to say about anybody...