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...Angeles press accounts of the trial) was United Press Hollywood Reporter Aline Mosby, who was replaced in the press gallery (for reasons of "illness") after a defense attorney declared that she had written 24 stories for Confidential. Rushmore also testified that New York Daily Newshen Florabel Muir and husband Dennis Morrison had been on a retainer to supply stories. Reporter Muir,' who had been covering the trial single-handed in sprightly fashion, was joined by a New York staffer after denying to the News that she had ever worked for Confidential...
...Hearst's Herald & Express and the ailing Daily News. In editorials and news stories, all three papers constantly fire away (TIME, Nov. 24, 1952 et seq.) at one another. For example, in the middle of the Mirror's liquor-license series, Newsmen discovered that Mirror Movie Columnist Florabel Muir had herself sold a license in just the way Mirror had said was "sizzling and sensational." Columnist Muir promptly resigned (TIME...
...hour "Sunday newspaper of the air." Its 15-minute "pages" cover everything from world news to criticism of the arts, call in some well-known name droppers. Tex McCrary interviews celebrities, and Jinx runs a woman's page, Mel Allen talks sports, Elmo Roper talks trends, Florabel Muir (see PRESS) gushes from Hollywood, Earl Wilson gives Broadway lowdown. Weekend is almost overwhelming in its volume and variety, but a generally relaxed manner and skillful transitions make it well worth hearing...
...jumped up, shouted "Mommy, I want a ring too." A wedding guest quieted her down by slipping off his own ring-a large diamond set in platinum-and putting it on Yasmin's finger. Within two minutes the ceremony was ended and the newlyweds went out, as Columnist Florabel Muir wrote, past "the clanking of the slot machines and the soft chant of the croupiers at the crap tables." to the wedding luncheon for the press...
Next morning in court, Franchot Tone pleaded innocent to Florabel's charges, later dictated an apology to Florabel to other newsmen, but still threatened to sue the News for Florabel's stories. Florabel's reply was to wave a wire from News President F. M. Flynn: "He can't do that to us. Remember the old newspaper motto: 'Print the news and raise hell...