Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...verbal pingpong has started for the day. International Party Girl Zsa Zsa Gabor and Autobiographical Collaborator Gerold Frank have begun their daily attack on the intricate task of translating Zsa Zsa onto the pages of a book. Ex-Newsman Frank (New York Journal-American) comes to the task with impressive qualifications. A veteran ghostwriter for wartime marines and submariners (Out in the Boondocks, U.S.S. Seawolf), longtime freelancer and magazine editor (Coronet), he now makes literary collaboration with show-business characters his well-paying specialty. After nearly 5,000 hours of listening, he in effect wrote Lillian Roth...
Soon after the two dailies in Portland, Ore. started cash-prize crossword-puzzle contests last November, the entries were pouring in at a tidal rate-57,000 a week to the afternoon Oregon Journal (circ. 182,956), about 60.000 a week to the morning Oregonian (circ. 233.856). Few entrants knew of the prohibitive odds against winning such circulation-promotion contests: usually more than 100.000 to one.*Last week both Portland papers took to their front pages with embarrassed confessions that some of the winners had somehow reduced the odds against winning to zero...
...have become convinced," said the Oregonian, "that certain persons have had access to advance information regarding answers to some of the puzzles." The Journal's apology, which ran under a six-column head, offered more details: "Our investigations have shown beyond any doubt that at least one of our winning contestants was able to win $2,600 in prize money because of information supplied, through several Portland intermediaries, from persons operating in Detroit...
...Auntie's hollow, shrewd, dying face; it pictures her eating wet meal with long, bony fingers, wiping dirt off her crackled skin, hobbling pitifully around the yard. At intervals she has snarling verbal bouts with Mother, who, though warm-hearted, is not the ideal of the Ladie's Home Journal. In fact, Mother often wishes Old Auntie would drop dead...
...protagonist is Hobbs, an English bulldog-one of the more fantastic dog designs. Hobbs owns 250 shares of General Motors common deeded to him by a Miss Galloway, "a maiden lady of honored memory and considerable wealth." Hobbs has a manservant and subscribes to the Wall Street Journal. It seems to be Wallop's idea that Hobbs and his pals-poodles, Afghans, et al.-can improve on the behavior of man and the appearance of cars. In short, money barks...