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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among U.S. newspaper columnists, Leonard Lyons, 47, is the No. 1 name-dropper. Columnist Lyons bears his title proudly, and his chatter about celebrities in his column, "The Lyons Den," syndicated to 74 dailies, earns him $65,000 a year. This week Columnist Lyons explained why name-dropping makes a successful column. "Would you [like me to] tell you about a dinner party for my Uncle Max? . . . Nah, you really don't want to hear about that . . . The basic fact of newspaper life is that if any Uncle Max-unless it's Beerbohm, Beaverbrook or Factor-breaks...
...Exhilarating Rounds. Celebrities like to be in Lyons' column as much as he likes to put them there (except for Walter Winchell, with whom he has bitterly feuded in the past few years). He reaches for friendship, shows most people he writes about in a favorable light, and often makes them more amusing than they are. At one time, he was helped in this by his quick-witted, attractive wife Sylvia. Those who appeared in "The Lyons Den" didn't mind if Sylvia's quips were sometimes put in their mouths. Lyons occasionally blunts-or loses completely...
...picture of Sir Winston Churchill, downed all the mineral water in the bar, and made off towards the police post at Kandara, 16 miles away. At 9:30 a.m. they confidently attacked the post in bright sunshine−but the British were ready and waiting. A relieving column of the King's African Rifles thundered up to the post as the Mau Mau closed in, and the riflemen leaped from their trucks and charged. One 23-year-old lieutenant bayoneted eight Mau Mau. "I was lucky," said he. "I happened to be well placed...
Busy at her chores as Washington society columnist, picture-pretty Austine ("Bootsie") McDonnell Cassini Hearst, 33, has had trouble finding enough time for her children and husband, Publisher William R. Hearst Jr., boss of the 16-newspaper and magazine empire. Last week the family won out. In her column, "Under My Hat," published in the Washington Times-Herald (syndicated to ten other papers as "Washington Whirl"), she wrote: "Ah Washington! After more than ten years of covering the Washington parade ... I shall soon say goodbye to a regular deadline . . . Mostly for two very good reasons−my two little sons...
Bootsie began her column in 1943 when her first husband, Igor (Cholly Knickerbocker) Cassini, went off to war. But, said she, it "was a luxury from the beginning. Now I find it's a luxury that I can't afford." The Times-Herald had no trouble finding a suitable replacement. The new columnist: Maryland McCormick, 55, wife of Colonel Robert R. McCormick, the Times-Herald (and Chicago Tribune) publisher. Maryland's new column started off this week on a subject on which both she and her predecessor are undisputed experts: publishers' wives. Says Mrs. McCormick, with...