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...forsaking Christianity," urged Dizzy Gillespie, goateed high priest of bebop, announcing his conversion to Mohammedanism to Chicago Sun-Times Columnist Irv Kupcinet. "Christianity is forsaking me. Or better, people who claim to be Christians just ain't. It says in the Bible to love thy brethren but people don't practice what the Bible preaches ... I been studying the Koran myself. That's the Islam Bible, you know. Once I get converted, I can't drink, or eat pork...
Individual four-way combined scores for the Crimson were: Taylor, 341.7; Bogert, 323.5; Bob Barrel, 288.8 (and forty-third in the meet); and Jim Weaver, 281 (forty-fourth). Irv Fisk was substitute...
This week, when its author returned from vacation, he had a new contract with the Sun-Times at $22,500 a year, a 50% raise. That made Irv Kupcinet Chicago's second best-paid columnist, next to Chicago Tribune's Sport Editor Arch Ward ($50,000 a year). Kup is taking on other chores too; he has two radio jobs and was dickering last week for two more...
Like all gossip columnists, Irv Kupcinet finds nightclubs exciting, and gets some of the excitement into his column. Every night, sportily dressed in a shirt with long Sinatra-style points (and with KUP loudly emblazoned on his handkerchief, tie clasp, cuff links and gold ring) he patrols such spots as Chez Paree and the Shangri-La, slapping backs, sipping coffee, soaking up column items. His red-haired wife tags along, often wearing a blouse stenciled with his columns. He haunts the Pump Room of the swank Ambassador East Hotel, a telephone plugged in at his table. Even at home, where...
Already running in the Los Angeles Daily News (with Chicago paragraphs cut out), it starts next month in Rio de Janeiro's English-language Brazil Herald. "They don't even cut out the Chicago items," says baffled Irv Kupcinet. "Must like the stuff. I can't think of another goddam reason for running me in Brazil...