Word: kilgallen
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...Ekins died last week at 62, and his death was engraved on obituary pages from coast to coast, it reminded most readers, who had long forgotten him, of one of his competitors whom he beat back to New York by a comfortable six days. Her name was Dorothy Kilgallen...
...heading for an Oct. 16 rendezvous in Manila, a date that coincided with the inaugural passenger flight of Pan American's China Clipper to the U.S. But Scripps-Howard's Ekins, sneaking into town first, talked his way aboard a test run and got safely home while Kilgallen and Kieran were still in Manila...
...long to play it that by the time it became a hit, all Mel's friends had already decided he was a liar. At 21, he made his New York debut as a singer with Mitzi Green at the Copacabana. "An egotistical, untalented little amateur," said Dorothy Kilgallen, and Earl Wilson said, "I'll take Mitzi; to hell with Mel." Mel was so deeply stung that he remembers the quotes verbatim to this...
...cheek, and offered her his own, slightly more ravaged, cheek in return. The kissee, Mrs. John F. Kennedy, looked pleased; but the moment, recorded on nationwide television, brought some cries of public outrage. "Distasteful'' and "disgusting," sniffed the proper to the polltakers; and though Gossip Dorothy Kilgallen soothed one righteous reader by explaining that "it was the sort of 'social' kiss customary in high society," she went on: "it's the New Frontier, so you've got to expect the members to make a few new rules. Maybe kissing the First Lady...
Where can you buy all these dolls? Nowhere. You make them up. Nearly everyone in Hollywood is busy inventing nasty, nifty little dolls. Like the Dorothy Kilgallen doll. Wind it up and it snubs the Albert Schweitzer doll...