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...gravel-voiced Editor Jacquin Leonard Lait thrives on the pace that kills. Last month, when he began his eighth "annual stand-in stint" for Gossip Walter
...Artie Angeleno" is green-eyed Jack (short for Jacquin Leonard) Lait Jr., 3 7 -year-old son of the New York Mirror's editor. A onetime screen writer and free lancer, he went to New York last summer to help his dad do vacation relief for Walter Winchell. He was a night-shift city deskman when his bosses shifted him to society a fortnight ago, set him up with an assistant and a telephone of his own. His assignment: to treat real society in cafe-society style. Lait's maiden column, sent to the Chief on approval, came...
That one was the Hearstian tabloid Daily Mirror, recently put under the direction of Jacquin Leonard ("Jack") Lait, oldtime Hearst thrill-writer. Fortnight ago the Mirror began a six-part daily feature called "Fiorenza's Own Amazing Story." Authorship was credited to "John Fiorenza, as told to David B. Charnay, Mirror staff correspondent." Gist was that the upholsterer's assistant had nourished an unrequited but undiscouraged love for Mrs. Titterton, who had previously rejected his advances, but, as an aspiring writer, had not hesitated to "pump" him for "copy...
Frenchmen were furious last week at their Ambassador in Berlin, sleek M. Bruno Francois Marie Pierre Jacquin de Margerie. Because he has married a German, his recall or at least transfer to some other country was said at the French Foreign Office to be "virtually certain...
...woman as a Mme. Jaquin, a Belgian lately released from the jail. But he could not understand her. Peering closely, he perceived that her tongue had been cut out, evidently with a sharp knife, close to the root. He frowned. It would be a vexing investigation, for the Jacquin woman could neither read nor write, and her friends were few. Her late jail sentence had been for gossiping viciously about neighbors...