Word: kilgallen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...become a visual as well as a verbal art. This is vividly apparent in Observations, a sort of peeping tome in which Photographer Richard Avedon's pictures are discussed by Author Truman Capote. Unfortunately, Capote writes in a style that combines the worst features of Henry James, Dorothy Kilgallen, and deb talk (says he of Marilyn Monroe: "Just a slob really: an untidy divinity-in the sense that a banana split or a cherry jubilee is untidy but divine"). But Avedon's pictures have the poignancy, and sometimes the pettiness, of inspired gossip. He is at home...
...Washington, compared new spring hat notes with Mamie Eisenhower. Later, the First Lady learned that for the sixth time she had been chosen one of America's 14 best-dressed women by Manhattan's Fashion Academy, along with such well-tailored veterans as Broadway Columnist Dorothy Kilgallen, a four-time choice, Mrs. Henry Ford (three times), and Radio-TV Burbler Maggi McNellis (eight times). A newcomer: Opera Diva Maria Callas...
...fact that, as the Washington Post and Times Herald's Edward T. Folliard put it, "this isn't a story, it's just a storybook." Everything happened according to schedule, putting, a heavy strain on the same old adjectives. Complained Hearst's Dorothy Kilgallen: "The only thing you can say for 'this story is that nobody can get scooped. I simply can't write 'radiant' or ''beaming' or 'sumptuous' one other" time." One day when the Queen looked exhausted, Reporter Kilgallen reached all the way to "fatigued...
...cheeked Jack Paar, 39, glibly scared up a little offbeat fun and flapdoodle-something that the gossipists who succeeded Kovacs and Steve Allen were notably unable to do. Despite first-week jitters, technical flaps, occasional lapses into tedium, and a mummer's parade of station-break plugs (Dorothy Kilgallen, Billy Graham, Coty Curl-Set), it looked as if Comedian Paar might be able to realize NBC's hopes of keeping TV "live" after 11, when many U.S. homes are surfeited with aged Hollywood movies. Boss Bob Sarnoff was so pleased that he sent Paar a pair of huge...
Hearing that Columnist-TV Panelist Dorothy (What's My Line?) Kilgallen had ground out an inside story hinting that Princess Grace is once again in a Grimaldi way, Monaco's Prince Rainier III turned a trifle purple, then chuckled away the entire miscoop: "Where do people get these things? It's really a mean thing to report. It is mean because it is inaccurate...