Word: eleanor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...huge success are both named Gould. They appear on the masthead in 12-point type as "Bruce Gould and Beatrice Blackmar Gould, Editors." They are far better known to the public than most of the editing confraternity, because of such journalistic didos as cozy "interviews" with notables like Eleanor Roosevelt and Harold Stassen, which were actually written by Gretta Palmer and J. C. Furnas, respectively...
...Chinese porcelains, a Ph.D. in criminology from the university at Edinburgh, his native city. He liked to shut himself up in his office with a basket of fruit and play symphony records. But he also had a good head for figures, and that made him immensely valuable to Eleanor Medill Patterson. He was her treasurer and confidant, and for 15 well-paid years his polished head and briefcase bulged with her undivulged secrets...
Protested: the will of Eleanor Medill ("Cissie") Patterson, late publisher of the Washington Times-Herald; by her only daughter, Countess Felicia Gizyclca (exwife of ex-Patterson Columnist Drew Pearson). Felicia, who ran away from home at 18, had been left most of Cissie's personal effects, some real estate, and an income of $25,000 a year for life. But the estate totaled better than $16 million (the Times-Herald was left to seven executives). Felicia protested to the court that her mother was not of "sound mind and memory" when she made the will, and that...
...when Cassini became the Journal-American's "Cholly Knickerbocker" three years ago. (Cholly waited until last week to mention Bootsie's new name. And Bootsie, say friends, is miffed because Ghighi remarried before she did.) When she tried to syndicate the column, her boss, the late Mrs. Eleanor Medill Patterson, said no. But now the lid was off: Washington newsmen expected Bootsie to be syndicated throughout the Hearst chain. And fellow gossip Danton Walker even predicted that she would show up high, on the crosstrees of Hearst's Town & Country's masthead...
...Henry Morgan, who has bitten one sensitive sponsor after another, thus far has neither radio nor television plans. Says Morgan: "Nobody's asked me," New hopefuls this season include Commentator Eleanor Roosevelt (assisted by daughter Anna Boettiger); The Railroad Hour (operettas with Gordon MacCrae); The Little Immigrant, described as "situation comedy with an underlying pathos." Cecil B. DeMille hopes to back with an hour-long dramatic show...