Word: kilgallen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan's newest columnist, pert Dorothy Kilgallen, who last week took over the Journal and American's "Voice of Broadway," immediately implored producers to ring up their curtains at 9:30 p. m., on the grounds that she is "an eating girl" and, as things stand, goes to the theatre half starved. "Or else," she wound up, "send me sandwiches with my tickets." If her suggestion were adopted, critics on morning newspapers would have only 15 minutes to write their reviews...
...most recent, as well as the fanciest, published appraisal of Winchell was written for this month's Cosmopolitan by Dorothy Kilgallen, who concludes: "He is a streamlined Aesop spinning the chromium fables of night-time Manhattan, a grey young recording angel writing the fickle legends of Broadway-on a small typewriter, with two fingers...
TIME credited the World-Telegram's world-girdling Reporter Ekins with no victory, no record. Third contestant in the race-that-was-not-a-race, New York Journal's Dorothy Kilgallen, took a special plane on the home stretch from Alameda to Newark, completed her circumnavigation in 24 days 12 hr. 51 min. Sticking strictly to commercial schedules, except for one taxi ride from Bologna to Brindisi, Timesman Kieran made the trip in 24 days...
...September 30, Herbert Roslyn ("Bud") Ekins of the Scripps-Howard New York World-Telegram, Dorothy Kilgallen of Hearst's New York Journal and Leo Kieran of the New York Times set off on the Hindenburg to race around the world on commercial airlines as a publicity stunt for their respective papers. Bad planning on the part of the Journal and Times, plus a couple of offside jumps by Reporter Ekins, soon put that World- Telegram man far in the lead. This week he completed the world trip in 18 days...
HARVARD GEORGETOWN Mays, 2b. c.f., Evers Thacher, 3b. l.f., Kilgallen Wood, s.s. s.s., McNamara Lupien, r.f. r.f., King Gleason, c.f. c., Rapp McCaffrey, l.f. 3b., Hutchinson Sheldon, 1b. 2b., Lione Fincke, c. 1b., Carolan Sprague or Taylor, p. p., Heaney or Noznesky...