Word: columnized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fortnight ago, peppery Laborite M.P. Tom Driberg let fall some pretty gossip in his Reynolds News column concerning a possible marriage between Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, who fought in the British Navy during the war, and who will take British citizenship in February. The Prince, said Driberg, is "intelligent and broadminded, fair and good-looking...
...talked out of the corner of his mouth. With Howard Lindsay, he turned out a play, A Slight Case of Murder. A score of his stories (Little Miss Marker, etc.) became movies; a few, like The Big Street (1942) he produced himself. Hearst christened The Brighter Side, the daily column where Runyon's endearing ignoramuses, Joe and Ethel Turp, were born...
Peggy's story was worth one line in a gossip column until the News went to work on it: a stranger had planted kisses on Peggy Joyce's shoulder, proposed to her, and had been knocked cold by her escort, Comedian Joey Adams. Methodically, Legman David Charnay tracked down all hands, helped them say quotable things...
...people of England." So the correspondent of Manhattan's tabloid, laborite Post decided to report the British through British eyes. The eyes he chose were those of his widowed, Cockney charlady, old (65), worked-bowed Mrs. Hunkle. This week, readers of Boal's twice-a-week column were seeing the U.S. through those same Cockney eyes. Boal had brought Mrs. Hunkle back with him, took her along on a Hollywood vacation where everything from elaborate hot-dog stands to film-colony eccentricities evoked her astonished Cockney...
...Hollywood last week, the Old Bag was indeed bringing in the mail. In a recent column, Boal had answered a question he had often been asked: Is Mrs. Hunkle real? Wrote he: "Sure she exists . . . she lives in perhaps 500,000 houses in London or Manchester or Leeds. . . . I didn't invent her. I merely tried to describe...