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...last year, many things that have been written in the U.S. press about Castro's Cuba "simply weren't true." The U.S. has been "needling that guy from the very beginning," said Paar on the air, "and I really thought it was unfair." When Hearst Columnist Dorothy Kilgallen rapped Paar, he replied that Kilgallen had been in poor international taste in calling attention to the thickness of Mrs. Khrushchev's ankles, claimed that for his part he had kept guests on his show from "making remarks about your appearance-that you have no chin...
...Upturned Glass) Mason and Terry (Mighty Joe Young) Moore. Explained Terry Moore: "I'm doing it in preparation for a role in Girl on Death Row-and by the way, the girl is innocent." Against such amateurs, an old newspaper pro could only look good-and Hearstling Dorothy Kilgallen is a bona fide professional. Rushed to Los Angeles to perk up the Hearst chain's coverage of the Finch-Tregoff trial. Reporter Kilgallen ranged far and wide, occasionally clucking faint disapproval of Carole Tregoff ("No one taking a long look at her would doubt that she was more...
...Dotty Kilgallen could also hold her own with her reportorial rivals in their own business: of all the celebrities covering, or attempting to cover, the Finch-Tregoff trial, she was the best known. At 46, the mother of three, Reporter Kilgallen conducts a syndicated daily gossip column, shares a daily small-talk radio program with her husband Dick Kollmar, and appears weekly on the television panel show What's My Line? In Los Angeles busy Dorothy sometimes attracted more interest than the trial itself: she posed for pictures with the defendants, signed scores of autographs for admirers, received...
...become a visual as well as a verbal art. This is vividly apparent in Observations, a sort of peeping tome in which Photographer Richard Avedon's pictures are discussed by Author Truman Capote. Unfortunately, Capote writes in a style that combines the worst features of Henry James, Dorothy Kilgallen, and deb talk (says he of Marilyn Monroe: "Just a slob really: an untidy divinity-in the sense that a banana split or a cherry jubilee is untidy but divine"). But Avedon's pictures have the poignancy, and sometimes the pettiness, of inspired gossip. He is at home...
...Washington, compared new spring hat notes with Mamie Eisenhower. Later, the First Lady learned that for the sixth time she had been chosen one of America's 14 best-dressed women by Manhattan's Fashion Academy, along with such well-tailored veterans as Broadway Columnist Dorothy Kilgallen, a four-time choice, Mrs. Henry Ford (three times), and Radio-TV Burbler Maggi McNellis (eight times). A newcomer: Opera Diva Maria Callas...