Word: hy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...confidently prescribed such bitter potions as brassy circulation-building contests and a mint-green third news section. He cut down on serious news coverage in order to trowel crime and cheesecake across Page One, souped up the gossip columns and, in fact, gave Broadway Gossipist (and onetime pressagent) Hy Gardner a powerful voice in the paper's inner councils...
Appearing on Gossipist Hy Gardner's TV interview show, Super-Gossipist Robert Harrison, muckraking publisher of Confidential, disclosed that the perils of his grubby profession are so great that nobody will sell him any life insurance. Added Scandalmonger Harrison: "And neither can our editors buy life insurance." Asked if his mother knows what he does for a living, Harrison colored a trifle, replied...
...light eater, disdains cigars, watches his blood pressure like a campaign manager watching a wavering delegate. No jolly backslapper or joke-smith, he has only an ordinary memory for names and faces, seldom relaxes ("The only time I ever knew him to relax," says Campaign Executive Director Hy Raskin, "was when he took off a weekend in Atlantic City. And then all he did was to sit on someone's front porch and talk politics"). He has never married. He blends a good sense of practical politics with a fairly idealistic view of "good government." Typical Finneganisms: "Good government...
...once reached a dramatic 30,000 ft. (the record: 43,000 ft). Patiently he tacked back and forth, working his way upward, riding air currents as buoyantly as a beach boy on a surfboard. Once over the crest, he slid easily downward to the French naval airfield at Hyères, just eleven miles east of Toulon. No other glider got close...
Flap in Manhattan. The press was also in a flap in Manhattan, from where Grace and her party (between 60 and 70) will sail April 4 on the American Export Lines' S.S. Constitution. Reported Herald Tribune Columnist Hy Gardner indignantly: "Miss Grace Kelly ordered the ship's officials to deny first-class privileges to the press and to keep them confined to cabin class . . . four to six to a cabin." The New York Post's Earl Wilson wrote that five reporters had canceled their bookings in a huff. Uneasily the line admitted that Grace had indeed requested...