Word: colyumist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Broadway Through a Keyhole (Twentieth Century) was the cause of last summer's most widely publicized Hollywood brawl. Gossip that incidents in the picture resembled incidents in the career of Dancer Ruby Keeler caused Miss Keeler's husband, Mammy Singer Al Jolson, to punch Colyumist Walter Winchell, who suggested the story to Producer Darryl Zanuck (TIME, July 31). Broadway Through a Keyhole shows Crooner Jolson's grounds for fisticuffs were inadequate. The heroine of the picture (Constance Cummings) works at a night club run by a harridan named Tex Kaley (Texas Guinan). Ruby Keeler was once...
...Where's Elmer?" had become such a popular inanity by last week that an "Elmer Calling Contest" was held at the Chicago Fair; and nerve-frazzled New Yorkers wrote letters to newspapers about the "malignant growth," the "contagious stupidity" of the greeting. Colyumist Walter Winchell printed a story that "Elmer" was a 300-lb. Brooklyn restaurateur named Elmann Neilsen, good and generous friend of Legionaries who would loudly page him wherever they went. Shrewdly Elmann Neilsen capitalized his fame last week by hanging a sign in his restaurant window: "Here's Elmer." Double-checked Elmer facts...
...romantic Colyumist Heywood Broun of the New York World-Telegram likes to back lost causes, pat underdogs. Some two months ago he hatched a plan which looked like a sure loser-the forming of a New York newspapermen's guild. He well knew the standard arguments against it. Out of many similar attempts in the past, only those in Milwaukee and Scranton, Pa. had effectively survived. Publishers were hostile. Newsmen, especially in New York, were too proud, too individualistic, too footloose to sign lodge cards. But that was just the kind of set-up that Colyumist Broun likes...
Sports page readers began to be acquainted with Colyumist Pegler's acid commentaries shortly after the War. Before that he had started in Chicago as a United Press reporter in 1912, gone abroad in 1916 to become the U. P.'s star War correspondent until he enlisted in the Navy in 1918. The United Press handled his sports column until 1925, when he joined the Chicago Tribune Syndicate...
...terms of Pegler's contract with the Tribune forbade his writing for any other publication. He was usually confined to the subject of sport and even when, as last winter, he wrote sardonic essays on goings on in Washington, they appeared on sports pages. For the World-Telegram, Colyumist Pegler will write about anything he likes or. much more probably, dislikes. His work will appear, like Broun's, on the feature page...