Word: kilgallen
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...massive coronary. A waiter who had just been inoculated against hay fever had a moment of terror. "Zap!" he thought. "Wrong vaccine." In Manhattan, a Negro maid looked out the window, told her employer to come on over and see "all the lights going out in tribute to Dorothy Kilgallen...
...paid her first official visit to the U.S. in 1957, New York reporters spent warm hours trudging alongside her ticker-tape parade up Broadway. At one point, they were startled by the sight of an unexpected limousine in the procession. In side, cool and elegantly dressed, sat Columnist Dorothy Kilgallen, covering the event in her regal fashion. Wiping the perspiration from her forehead, an exasperated woman reporter murmured: "There goes the Queen covering the Queen...
...readers, Dorothy Kilgallen became as much of a celebrity as the celebrities she covered - and often skewered. Until her death at 52 last week of still undetermined causes, she remained a triple threat of the communications world. She wrote a daily gossip column, "The Voice of Broadway," which was syndicated in 146 papers; she appeared as a panelist with a waspish will to win on the TV show What's My Line?; and she covered occasional front-page events for the Hearstpapers with a flair rarely equaled by the competition. On any assignment she made herself so conspicuous that...
...York and within a week was eating kickapoo pills given her by a thug in El Morocco. Ironically enough, the series was created by the man who wrote Born Yesterday, Broadway Playwright-Director Garson Kanin. His hero, played by Craig Stevens, is a press-agent who calls Kilgallen before he calls the police. The show is nervously edited and stuffed with cameo appearances by Leonard Lyons and Oleg Cassini-all the symptoms of a script that has been wadded rather than written...
...nearly as risky as inviting Hedda Hopper, Sheilah Graham, Lolly Parsons and Dorothy Kilgallen to tea together, but Chief Economic Adviser Walter Heller thought he could pull it off. For months he worked to arrange an unprecedented meeting of four past chairmen of the Council of Economic Advisers with President Johnson. Though economists are a notably proud and prickly lot, Heller felt that the meeting would indicate that the former chairmen generally support the major points of the Administration's economic policy, and he hoped that acrimonious debate could be avoided. Last week President Johnson joined Heller and Economic...