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...Corum, broadcasting baseball is old hat, but his favorite. He has followed the game since he was seven, got his first job writing baseball for the New York Times 27 years ago. Arthur Brisbane liked a story Bill wrote about Walter Johnson, lured him over to Hearst's Journal-American, where he has been ever since. He travels with the clubs, knows most of the major-league players, was an old favorite of John ("The Great") McGraw and Miller Huggins. He also is a favorite of other journalists. Wrote Westbrook Pegler: "There is never any night where Our Will...
Nancy Bruff, whose high-pressured novel The Manatee made her one of Park Avenue's greatest women writers, celebrated the pleasures of motherhood in a little piece for the New York Journal-American. In conclusion she informed her readers: "As for myself, I hope to produce another book and another baby next year...
...ones: Ted Ferro and Jack Morley, Connecticut neighbors of Johnson. Ferro, at 41 an old hand at collaboration, had ground out radio serial Lorenzo Jones with his wife for nine years. Morley, a 38-year-old gag cartoonist, once did editorial cartoons for Hearst's New York Journal-American...
Slender, kinky-haired Igor Loiewski-Cassini, who is a grandson of a Russian count, hit Manhattan last fall like a ton of marshmallows. He signed on as "Cholly Knickerbocker" of Hearst's New York Journal-American society page, and set his sights high. What he wanted, he said, was syndication-first national, then global. He put out a highly readable, often unbearable column full of cream-puff crises and chichi. Sometimes, to angle it down Hearst's alley, he sternly lectured his readers on why broiled squab and Valentina gowns were Worth Fighting...
...Most of my work," says Bootsie, "is done in bed." There she breakfasts, reads the papers (including the Journal-American, to see, as she says, what her husband has snitched from her column), pecks out her column. In midafternoon, she starts a round of cocktail parties (her drink: orange juice) and dinners. At these gatherings she caches her notebook in the ladies' room, makes frequent trips there to jot down the items she overhears. By 1 a.m. she is back in bed. Once a week she sees her husband, "Ghighi." They meet in New York because, says Bootsie...