Word: kilgallen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...