Word: columnists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Randolph Churchill, plump columnist-son of Winston, surveyed Manhattan, recalled its aspect three years before, reported to his readers changes that struck him most: women weren't as good-looking as they used to be, but necklines plunged deeper. Analyst Churchill (whose occasional companion has been ex-Best-Dressed Mrs. William Rhinelander Stewart) explained that the great beauties were all in Florida at the moment...
John O'Hara, best selling literary specialist in big-city barflies, heels and floozies, got a thorough quoting-over from New York Post Columnist Earl Wilson, who interviewed him at a bar. O'Hara by Wilson: "If I write any extended work, I gotta goddam well get offa the booze. . . . Well, I'm going to level with you about Pal Joey. You are a guy that's got to be on the eerie, and you heard I wrote it while I was on the sauce. I didn't. I was sober ... I started...
Groused long-nosed Columnist Lyons, who says that he borrows "from my witty wife" many of the gags he credits to others: "No one has the right to the fruit of our labor; no man, using only scissors and paste pot, should benefit from another's leg-ear-and-eyework...
William Randolph Hearst, 82, seemed to be getting all set. Columnist Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. snooped around San Simeon, Calif., reported workmen building "an atomic cellar for the stooped old gent to disappear into when the next great war comes along...
Married. George Longan Arnold, 24, law-student son of sardonic Trustbuster Thurman Wesley Arnold; and Ellen Cameron Pearson, 19, daughter of gossipy Washington Columnist Drew Pearson, granddaughter of vituperative Washington Publisher Eleanor Medill ("Cissie") Patterson; in Georgetown...