Word: columnists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...history had a President told Supreme Court justices to get out. The story even named the four justices: Black, Jackson, Frankfurter and Murphy. To devoted News and Times-Herald readers, it looked like the straight dope. To newsmen, it did not: the "scoop" was signed by poison-penman Columnist John O'Donnell...
Mary Chase, Denver author of Broadway's Harvey, explained to visiting Columnist Ward Morehouse how success had changed things: "I used to be a little fonder of people. I had a lot of good friends. . . . I made my biggest mistake in the way I returned here after Harvey was a success. . . . I sneaked in the back door, and didn't give them a chance to be proud...
William Shakespeare finally rated one of Hollywood Columnist Sidney Skolsky's intimate little profiles, complete to the indispensable feature: "He sleeps in a long nightgown, never wears pajamas...
...Billy Rose, who is about the size of a Broadway boutonniere, is a self-made showman, songwriter (Million Dollar Baby) and saloonkeeper. He is also a zealous art collector. Last week the bantam Barnum, jack of many a theatrical trade, was mastering a new one. As an offbeat Broadway columnist who pays to be published, he had received offers from two newspaper syndicates who wanted to pay him instead...
Last week Columnist Rose, who uses a young advertising man named Lee Rogow as a legman-but needs no ghostwriter-wondered if he was getting read. To wangle fan mail, he offered a free champagne supper for the ten best lists of the top ten "glamor-pusses of 1946." (In his own, he tucked in Wife Eleanor Holm, onetime swimming champion.) His take in four days: 7,400 letters...