Word: kilgallen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some editors decided was going to be the biggest crime story in years. Publisher William R. Hearst Jr., who has been trying to jack up his ailing chain, saw the trial as a rare opportunity. He ordered a task force dispatched to Cleveland, led by Sob Sister Dorothy Kilgallen (TIME, Nov. 15), Handyman Bob Considine and Cartoonist Burris Jenkins Jr. (for courtroom sketches). Scripps-Howard followed suit with its own crew, including Inspector Robert Fabian of Scotland Yard, who, repelled by the Hollywood-like atmosphere of the trial, wrote icily: "In the staid atmosphere of the Old Bailey, this would...
Hearst Reporter Dorothy (What's My Line?) Kilgallen is a practitioner of an old and dying school of U.S. newspaper reporting; she is the leading U.S. sob sister. Last week, covering the Cleveland trial of Dr. Sam Sheppard (TIME, Aug. 30), charged with the murder of his wife Marilyn, Sob Sister Kilgallen demonstrated why she deserves the title-and perhaps why such reporting is a-dying out. Wrote Reporter Kilgallen...
...appeal that Groucho generates singlehanded is most nearly duplicated by CBS's What's My Line?, which also comes alive more through its star personalities (John Daly, Arlene Francis, Steve Allen, Bennett Cerf, Dorothy Kilgallen) than through its intellectual teasing. It has spawned a great many imitators, ranging from I've Got a Secret, whose panelists have to guess secrets that contestants eagerly share with several million televiewers, to self-explanatory shows like The Name's the Same and Who Said That...
Born. To Dorothy Kilgallen, 40, veteran Hearst gossipist and TV panelist (What's My Line), and former Broadway Actor Richard Kollmar, 43, her radio breakfast-program partner (Dorothy and Dick): their third child, second son; in Manhattan. Name: Kerry Ardan. Weight...
...What had ruptured the seven-year association between Godfrey and Chesterfield? Arthur's great & good friend Walter Winchell rushed into print with an explanation: "Godfrey quit his ciggie sponsors. They didn't quit him. He didn't like the commercials." New York Journal-American Columnist Dorothy Kilgallen had a different version: "Around CBS they say the split . . . was preceded by a sizzling backstage battle just before airtime," but Dorothy failed to say what the sizzling battle was about or whom it was between. Fred H. Walsh, president of the advertising agency concerned (Cunningham & Walsh), insisted that...