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...absolutely hysterical," exclaimed Dorothy Kilgallen. "Imagine two papers writing me up at the same time. I can hardly wait for the Christian Science Monitor to jump into the act." Last week the New York Post began a less-than-loving series about Dorothy, star of the Hearst empire, as headline reporter, gos sip columnist ("Voice of Broadway"), television personality (What's My Line?), radio chatterist (Breakfast with Dorothy and Dick] and homemaker (a husband, three children and a 22-room Manhattan town house). That same day Dorothy's own New York Journal-American began a two-part story...
Feeling No Pain. To the Post, Dorothy was a "colossus of gainful employment," daily parading in fame and trailed by envy. At the very start of its first article the Post lifted an eyebrow at the fact that Reporter Kilgallen covered New York's 1957 welcome to Queen Elizabeth from "the lonely splendor" of a limousine in the official procession up Broadway. (Says Dorothy: "What's wrong with that? I rented a limousine, and some darling generals and police captains were nice enough to let my car swing into line with the procession.") "At 47," said the Post...
...Broadway" as "an unindexed catalogue of malice, reportage, and odd bits of misinformation," the Post said: "[The 'Voice'] goes in for the blind item, the sick item, and the vengeance item . . . Yet it has never succeeded in making or breaking any performer or public figure. Nor has Kilgallen herself ever become a figure of influence or intrigue, except among pressagents, who fear her as they fear almost anyone who can type...
...Paar's list was Dorothy Kilgallen, like Winchell a Hearst columnist, and in Paar's opinion, "a puppet. She never moves her lips when she talks. She must use Novocain lipstick." Frank Sinatra spat on the floor when he mentioned her on his show, but she only made Paar foam at the mouth...
Finally retracting his nails, he promised to restore straight entertainment to the show and "give up Winchell and Kilgallen for Lent." Ten times over he had said about all there was to say, except how glad he was to be working again for NBWC...