Word: kilgallen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...should be allowed to cover the trial, decided that it should-that a secret trial was a dangerous precedent. British and French newsmen were stirred to cover the trial along with the reporters of U.S. newspapers and press services, and a handful of nightclub columnists, e.g., Walter Winchell, Dorothy Kilgallen and Earl Wilson, some of whom rarely see the morning light. Even such papers as the Asheville (N.C.) Citizen, which righteously proclaimed on its editorial page that it was proper to "seal off this filthy business from the public view," told its public on Page One the same day: "Call...
Among America's best-dressed women of 1952, according to Manhattan's Fashion Academy: Mrs. Estes Kefauver; Cinemactress Ann Sheridan; Broadway Columnist Dorothy Kilgallen; Metropolitan Soprano Marguerite Piazza; Radio Songstress Jo Stafford; Musicomedy Star Vivian (Guys and Dolls) Blaine; Nina Warren, daughter of California's governor. Commented Mrs. Kefauver: "Oh, my goodness! I haven't even bought a new spring suit...
What's My Line? comes in the standard half-hour size, equipped with a standard panel of four: Columnist Dorothy Kilgallen, Actress Arlene Francis, Funnyman Hal Block and a guest. By asking questions that can only be answered with a yes or no, the panelists try to discover the business occupations (which have already been flashed to the TV audience) of the lady wrestlers, tree surgeons, wig-makers, house detectives, sword swallowers, etc. who appear as challengers. Each "no" answer wins $5 for the challenger; if he can answer no ten times he gets credit for defeating the panel...
This does not happen very often, and when it does the panel seldom takes it lightly. Among the 5,000 letters received each week, a good number usually protest Miss Kilgallen's relentless onslaught (observed one TVman: "Dottie's butler gets very annoyed if she misses one"). Almost as many take issue with the puns Funnyman Block incorporates into his earnest questions. Others charge collusion, although Moderator Daly insists that there is only one signal he ever gives to the panel: when he pulls his right ear lobe it warns them, usually Block, that the questions are getting...
...press party given by the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, Hearst's Bob Considine did little better; he drew only frozen stares with a wisecrack about 10-cc syringes. Hard-bitten Reporter James Kilgallen also stopped a Manchester dowager cold with his definition of how to pronounce his name: "Kill gallon, madam. Like booze...