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Scare story of the week, aired by Gossipist Walter Winchell in his Sunday-night broadcast: "New polio vaccine . . . may be a killer . . . The U.S. Public Health Service tested ten batches . . . found that seven contained live, not dead, polio virus. It killed several monkeys...
Born. To Dorothy Kilgallen, 40, veteran Hearst gossipist and TV panelist (What's My Line), and former Broadway Actor Richard Kollmar, 43, her radio breakfast-program partner (Dorothy and Dick): their third child, second son; in Manhattan. Name: Kerry Ardan. Weight...
...Wall Streeters," boasted Hearst Gossipist Walter Winchell last week, "are calling the current rise of many stocks a Walter Winchell Market." The truth was less impressive than Winchell's fiction. For the past few months, on his Sunday night radio-TV broadcast, Winchell has been as full of tips as a market newsletter. The Securities Exchange Commission, which questioned the sources of his tip-stering several years ago, but retreated when Winchell pleaded "freedom of the press," is not officially concerned with his latest interest. Winchell has assured the SEC that he does not receive payment for giving advice...
...National Kids Day Foundation, Inc., a West Coast organization headed by Hollywood Gossipist Jimmy Fidler, collected $3,978,000 in five years, disbursed a total of $302,000 for charitable purposes. The rest-82% of the take-went into the pockets of professional fundraisers (Fidler receives no salary). Whimpered Fidler: "It seems like they're picking on us for publicity...
Kreis is now trying to lure Hollywood columnists to his drugstore. Gossipist Sheilah Graham is a regular (from Chatter: "Sheilah Graham quietly dining with friends, never missing a trick"). Though Columnist Skolsky shows up occasionally (seductive Chatter item: "Sid Skolsky in again, and what a sweet guy that is"), he remains loyal to Schwab's. Meanwhile, Leon Schwab is taking his competition calmly. Says he: "They're just an imitation. They're getting our overflow. We wish them the best of luck...