Word: colyums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...colyum of Washington chit-chat in the Scripps-Howard newspapers Reporter George Abell told how Dr. Erich ("Candid Camera") Salomon pointed his lens at a group of important Democrats jovially quaffing drinks in an anteroom at the Jackson Day dinner. Just as he snapped the shutter Dr. Salomon heard someone shout: "Hey, you can't take that picture!'' It was Governor Albert Cabell Ritchie of Maryland. Continued the Governor: ". . . But you can come in and have a drink...
Cartoonist Hershfield's contract with King Features expired Dec. 31, was not renewed. Welcomed, with some surprise, by Macfadden, Hershfield signed a two-year contract for a daily cartoon and a daily colyum called "If I'm Wrong, Sue Me." When King Features saw that he proposed to call his Graphic character "A. Kabibble," it accepted the invitation, threatened suit for an injunction on the ground that Abie Kabibble?character and name?was its property. Cartoonist Hershfield changed his character's name to "Meyer the Buyer" and grimly prepared to fight...
...craftiness, stinginess, cowardice?U. S. Jews have more than tolerated him. Reasons:1) he was the "comedian" (not the hero) of the strip, surrounded by un-caricatured Jewish characters; 2) he was preferable to the oldtime stage comic Jew who wore beard and derby, talked with his hands. A colyum in the current issue of The Zionist comments on his change of locale: "Here is where the Graphic gets our daily two cents." Two months ago many a Jewish weekly printed an editorial for the 18th birthday...
...words, of course, were not the Times's own; they were quoted from the gossip-colyum of Walter Winchell in the tabloid Daily Mirror. Directly and indirectly they made Walter Winchell news last week: directly because his colyum was on the street only six hours before Gangster Vincent Coll was machine-gunned to death in a telephone booth, and Colyumist Winchell (who had been frightened into getting a police bodyguard) was summoned before the Grand Jury to explain his advance information; indirectly because they precipitated a new climax in a long-standing squabble between Winchell and Publisher Albert John...
...contract. The instant that should occur Winchell would skip three blocks downtown to Joseph Medill Patterson's big little Daily News (completing his ascension of the scale of Manhattan tabloids). According to Newsdom, weekly of unemployed newspapermen, the News offered Winchell $1,000 a week for a Sunday colyum alone...