Word: columnists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lucius Beebe, U.S. journalism's most rococo columnist, went digging for facts in Colorado, after his fashion. To mine material for another nostalgic book about his hobby, railroads, locomotive-loco Lucius, assisted only by his Manhattan roommate, a photographer, and a small, hardy retinue, braved narrow-gauge trails in a private railroad car (b. circa 1870). Like the Englishman in the jungle, Prospector Beebe dutifully dressed for dinner every night. The grub: caviar, foie gras, pheasant, champagne...
Randolph Churchill, plump columnist-son of Winston, readied himself for a more Spartan venture than Beebe's. He was about to make a winter-long lecture tour of the U.S., in a new Lincoln, with one chauffeur and one secretary. Interviewed in Manhattan,. Journalist Churchill refused to comment on Elliott Roosevelt's observation (in As He Saw It) that "for young Churchill, conversation is strictly a unilateral operation." He also refused to comment on Sister Mary's rumored engagement to Belgium's Prince Charles. Said Journalist Churchill: "It's nobody's business. ... I think there should be five freedoms?Freedom...
...What puzzles me is that much of the best entertainment in radio is built around a sarcastic treatment of the things radio holds most dear." Scripps-Howard Columnist Robert C. Ruark wrote this "sorrowfully" last week. He was not opposed to all of radio. "Mary Margaret McBride . . . is preferable to a hole in the head," said Ruark...
...game of the season, U.S. baseball fans did not know who would play in the World Series (see SPORT). But there was never any doubt who would be on hand to tell them about it. For the tenth year, Martene Windsor ("Bill") Corum, Hearst's stump-shaped sports columnist, got ready last week for radio's biggest sports event...
...Jolson Story is the first production job of an amateur: bantam-sized (5 ft. 2 in.) Hollywood gossip columnist Sidney Skolsky. While insisting that journalism is his profession, Skolsky has dabbled in picture-making for years, occasionally walking through bit parts as a gag or tossing out a helpful suggestion to studio executives...