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...Married. Hy Gardner, 53, syndicated newspaper gossipist, editor of Herald Tribune TV-radio magazine, conductor of WABD-TV's Hy Gardner Calling interview show; and Marilyn Boshnick, 31, his secretary; he for the third time, she for the first; in Manhattan...
Like its successful parent, Truth trades more on parlor fun than private largesse, encouraging its 25 million viewers to get their vicarious thrills by playing Hawkshaw at home. The trick is for the panel of four (Polly Bergen, Kitty Carlisle, Ralph Bellamy, Hy Gardner) and home viewers to tell the real McCoy from a trio that includes two impostors or "side men." Each of the panelists is permitted a few questions to separate the cheats from the right chap, but the liars usually put on a more convincing act than the real item or "central character," and their own occupations...
...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...
...seven major dailies, the Herald Tribune earned the additional distinction of being the only morning paper that had a substantial weekday circulation drop: from a 1955 peak of 387,276 to 367,248 this year. And despite such costly come-ons as a handy pocket-size TV supplement (editor: Hy Gardner) and a staff-produced feature magazine, Sunday circulation slipped from 596,308 in early 1956 to 576,488 in 1957; since 1946 it had dropped...
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...