Word: columnists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Colonel remembered that Columnist Hedda Hopper, an employee of his Chicago Tribune-Daily News syndicate, had long promised to open his eyes if he would visit the gilded city. On his one trip to Hollywood, 15 years ago, it had rained constantly and he had since thought of the town, if at all, as a damp offshoot of the Land of Oz. But he still liked to have his eyes opened...
After the lunch, the Colonel had only one major hurdle left-Hedda's command cocktail party. Columnist Hopper had worked swiftly and with care. She had screened out Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles and others politically repulsive to the Colonel. Walter Wanger had declined the invitation. But the 130 names circling the glass-enclosed room overlooking Hedda's swimming pool were as glittering as any ever mobilized by Hollywood on such short notice-Olivia de Havilland, Deborah Kerr, Gary Grant, Irene Dunne, Frank Sinatra, Lana Turner, Tyrone Power...
Dinner (9:30 p.m.) is only rarely a banquet these days; sometimes there are only W. R. and Marion Davies. Oftener a few regulars show up, like Columnist Louella Parsons, Princess Conchita Sepulveda Pignatelli, society writer of the Los Angeles Examiner. Their host eats heartily (favorite delicacies: cracked crab, pheasant or duck just barely heated), and keeps the table talk on a high plane. Risque stories are out; Hearst recently reprimanded a woman guest who cut loose with a mild "damn." Every night the inevitable movie begins at 11, and bedtime...
...Streeters last week were chattering like a treeful of English sparrows over the supersuccess story of a bird they all knew when. Only eight months ago brash Frank Owen, back from the wars, had gone to work as a high-priced (around $40,000 a year), once-a-week columnist for Lord & Lady Rothermere's London Daily Mail. Now he had been named its editor...
Does it work? Medical doctors grudgingly admit that sometimes it does: like hypnotism, it may occasionally do wonders for a neurotic patient who believes he has been helped. Doctors like to cite a chiropractic patient's testimonial once quoted by a Chicago Tribune columnist: "Before taking chiropractic and electric treatments, I was so nervous that no one could sleep with me. After six treatments, anybody can sleep with...