Word: columnists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night last week, Columnist Walter Winchell, who writes for Hearst and sells lotions on the side, panted over the radio: "Insiders in New York expect a very sharp decline in the stockmarket before the holidays, suckers." Next day impressionable "suckers" rushed to dump their holdings. Result: the worst market break in two years. In the unreasoning selling, nearly every stock on the Big Board slumped. By day's end the Dow-Jones industrial averages had dropped 3.4 points...
...tough-guy convert to Hamlet, on opening night was Producer Todd's great friend Toots Shor, whose Manhattan restaurant is the sports world's second home. Toots's tribute: "it's real cops-&-robbers stuff, with class." And during the intermission, according to Columnist Earl Wilson, Toots remarked: "I'm the only bum in the audience that's going back in just to see how it comes...
From London, where he is busy getting his Carmen Jones produced, Broadway's Billy Rose last week sent Columnist Walter Winchell a report on everything from St. Paul's to Piccadilly streetwalkers, but chiefly on the state of the theater...
Ohio-born Buck Grouse, 52, hopped at 17 from high school to cub reporting, eventually became a columnist on the New York Evening Post, an author of nostalgic Americana (Mr. Currier and Mr. Ives, It Seems like Yesterday). He swung over to Broadway as pressagent for the Theatre Guild. Bawled out for not getting enough publicity for Maxwell Anderson's Valley Forge, he retorted that he'd managed to get George Washington's picture on 2? stamps...
...with the fourth longest run: Arsenic and Old Lace. From these two projects alone, each has made roughly a million-with plenty of gold still to be mined. The two men don't like to talk finances, claim that most of their earnings just slip away. When a columnist wrote that Lindsay's money had "gone to his head," Lindsay phoned him, said "Thanks, I've been wondering where it went...