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...eager beaver is What's My Line?'s Dorothy Kilgallen, who often seems to have patterned her technique on that of tenacious Lawrence Spivak of Meet the Press. Hearst-Columnist Kilgallen is distinguished by her no-nonsense approach and her relentless slicing away of extraneous issues in solving such epic equations as whether a contestant is a rabbit poacher or a gravedigger by trade. Says Moderator John Daly admiringly: "Dottie follows a logical, syllogistic construction: she is more of a technician and a scientist in her approach." The only other quizzer to come close to equaling her eager...
...been busy, Virginia, helping along the poor little people, and gleaning a little floss from the dross. How do you think Dorothy Kilgallen would have had a chance to write again without the murder trial? Why do you think Hemingway got a Nobel Prize right after hurting his head, And who do you think has been busy in his North Pole workshop whipping up a new wing for Winthrop House...
...your Nov. 15 "So Lovely & So Bruised": Miss Dorothy Kilgallen's "report" of the LSheppard] trial, as seen in your printed excerpt, is one of the most glaring examples of the ever-increasing, detestable "trials by newspaper" . . . Unconsciously, Miss Kilgallen designed her narrative to display one emotion for one person: quivering sympathy for Mrs. Sheppard . . . After a gruesome, adjective-laden description of the slides of the dead woman, consider the effect of the sob sister's subsequent sentence: "No wonder at all that Dr. Sam (meaning the defendant, I presume) cried. He could remember well, without looking...
...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...