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This was Woollcott speaking from London last week on CBS's evening news roundup. In what sense Alexander Woollcott's life had hitherto been cast amid perils was not explained; but there was no doubt that the Town Crier was in character. Besides candy for a Lady, his presents (carried over with his person on a British warship) included 45 pairs of silk stockings, three dozen lipsticks, "yes, and bobby pins...
...teacher from U. C. L. A., Baiter wrote action stories for the pulps, treated scripts for Universal before he was wired for sound. Inspired to take to the air by a broadcast of Alexander Woollcott, he arranged his sportscasts in a pattern as intricate as that of the Town Crier, substituted whipcord for Woollcott's lace. His first sponsor was the proprietor of a chain of chili joints, whose clientele listened with stunned admiration to his high-class composition. From his chili sponsor Baiter got $10 a broadcast, zoomed into the big money within a year...
...Punjab of Northern India. When British officials arrested two Nationalist leaders, British agents were murdered, a bank was plundered, the city hall and a church burned. Europeans were attacked in the streets. On April 13, Brigadier General Reginald E. H. Dyer arrived with 600 troops, sent a drum crier through the streets shouting an edict which forbade meetings of more than three people...
...buskin for The Man Who Came to Dinner? (TIME, Feb. 19.) Here in Chicago Clifton Webb pulled on the sock, a happier choice. Perhaps the late Town Crier should have thrice refused the part...
...landed in San Francisco in 1866, a tall, blue-eyed ex-Civil War officer, he showed few signs of the savage misanthropy which marked his later work. According to Author Walker's researches, Bitter Bierce's misanthropy began two years after his arrival, when he became Town Crier for the satirical News Letter. Author Walker thinks Bierce enjoyed himself almost as much as did his readers. At any rate he was never sued for libel, shot at, even taken a poke at, in a country where editors' duels were commonplace. Bierce wrote the first realistic descriptions...