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...Toots Shor, the favorite of sportsmen and serious drinkers like Jackie Gleason. Naturally, America needed arbiters to decide which of these people with too much money and way too much free time were worth the reader's notice. That was the job of the gossip columnists: Ed Sullivan, Dorothy Kilgallen and, first and last, Walter Winchell...
...only go- getting female reporter. (Older observers can recall that Brenda Starr has been tearing through the comic pages since 1940, and that real-life role models of the period included such famous bylines as Anne O'Hare McCormick, Martha Gellhorn, Dorothy Thompson, Genet, Marguerite Higgins and Dorothy Kilgallen.) As a chauvinist creation, Lois not only bungled most of her assignments and repeatedly double-crossed the faithful Clark, but also subordinated all professional demands to her one romantic obsession. After she parachutes into a flood, she tells her rescuer, "I'd like to be in your arms always, Superman...
...chucked a law career in 1934 when the New York Post finally bent to years of entreaties and made him a columnist (at $50 a week). His refusal to monger scandal earned him the trust that the famous withheld from more waspish types like Walter Winchell and Dorothy Kilgallen. On George Bernard Shaw's 90th birthday, he granted Lyons an exclusive interview. Ernest Hemingway's wife Mary phoned Lyons with the first word that her husband was dead. The Trumans entertained him during their last days at the White House...
Died. Richard Kollmar, 60, former Broadway producer and longtime radio actor best known for his portrayal of the title role in Boston Blackie and Breakfast with Dorothy and Dick, a daily talk show in which he and his late wife, Columnist Dorothy Kilgallen, would chat intimately over the clatter of morning dishes; in Manhattan...
Married. Richard Kollmar, 55, onetime Broadway producer (Plain and Fancy), longtime radio chit-chat man (from 1945 to 1963, with his late wife Dorothy Kilgallen on Breakfast With Dorothy and Dick), now proprietor of Manhattan's Pastiche Gallery; and Mrs. Anne Fogarty, 48, designer of stylish medium-priced frocks; both for the second time, in a civil ceremony (the bride wore a Fogarty) in Manhattan...