Word: columnized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winchell himself was off on a six-weeks' vacation. In Manhattan, Jack Lait, editor of Hearst's Mirror, filled in for his hired hand, but wanted it known that the ground rules were different when he played. At a column's end, he tacked a virtuous "Notice to many well-meaning informers:" this column, under this byline, does NOT publish obstetrical information, ever...
Country Editor George W. Haskett smelt a rat. Some news had filtered into Elizabeth City (N.C.) from nearby Ahoskie that didn't make sense. He sniffed further, and pretty soon he had the rat by the tail. He hung it high in the editorial column of his semiweekly Independent...
Hedda Hopper is the handsome, headlong gossip whose syndicated column, usually titled "Hollywood," written in prose of an inspired spasticity, daily gives her 22,800,000 readers the illusion that they have been behind the sets, the bushes and deep into some of Hollywood's better bed-&-bathrooms. This eminence Columnist Hopper shares (reluctantly) with her rival in revelation, Hearstian Columnist Louella ("Lollipop") Parsons, fat, fiftyish, and fatuous, whose syndicated column reaches some 30,000,000 readers...
With the first appearance (1938) of her column in the Los Angeles Times, Hedda was made. In 1940 she switched from Esquire to the Des Moines Register & Tribune syndicate; in 1942, she pulled off her grand coup of wooing & winning syndicating contracts from the New York Daily News's Joe Patterson and the Chicago Tribune's Bertie McCormick. On that day, June 1, Lolly Parsons arched her back but moved over on the fence. Hedda had become a major Hollywood gossip...
Hedda's Whoppers. It has been suggested that, for all Hedda's slash & dash, her wild but indisputable charm and her whizzing success at her job, the head beneath the hats is something of an air pocket. In her very first column, she perpetrated a lulu to the effect that Greta Garbo, who was soon, she said, to marry Leopold Stokowski, had undergone inspection by Stokowski's patrician Philadelphia relatives. Stokowski has no patrician Philadelphia relatives. A rudimentary instinct for checking sources would have spared Hedda that blooper...