Word: columnists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Belmont specialized in what she called "frustrated love songs," called herself The Blue Velvet Voice. Her singing was popular with men. Columnist Earl Wilson came, watched, went away and wrote simply: "Busting all records." Miss Belmont became a pin-up girl, sent 50,000 photographs of her sweatered self to soldiers who wrote countless formal, polite letters in return...
Raymond Clapper, plainspeaking, widely read, plain man's columnist who was killed in a plane crash during the invasion of the Marshalls a year ago, was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart by the U.S. Navy, which cited him as a "brilliant journalist" who died in "gallant company and in a worthy cause...
...lusty Frankie and Johnnie ballet which might well have attracted a censor's attention (see Music). Taunted Daily News Critic John Chapman in his review: "License Commissioner Paul Moss last night sponsored a dirty show which had in it bawds, a pimp and a couple of Lesbians." And Columnist Leonard Lyons recalled that Moss once co-produced Noel Coward's This Was a Man, which the Lord Chamberlain banned in England as indecent...
...WOUNDED TENNIS PLAYER-Morton Thompson-Doubleday, Doran ($2). Wacky autobiographical musings by ex-columnist (now Staff Sergeant) Thompson-about his mother, his career, and his little brother who talked confidentially with horses...
...four weeks engagement at the Massachusetts Avenue club with a new Dixieland Band featuring Pops Foster, Bunk Johnson, Hank Duncan, and Fred Moore. The Bechet quintet will also appear Monday night at 30 Huntington Avenue in a concert sponsored by the Boston Jazz Society. George Frazier, former CRIMSON columnist and present Theatre Editor of Life magazine, will be in town to cover what he terms "the jazz event of the decade...