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...gravel-voiced Editor Jacquin Leonard Lait thrives on the pace that kills. Last month, when he began his eighth "annual stand-in stint" for Gossip Walter
...Lait's own bonus-winning lead on a story about Murderer Harry Thaw's escape from a New York insane asylum, and his cross-country flight in the summer sun: "Harry Thaw arrived in Chicago last night, brown...
...years in the newspaper business, the New York Mirror's Editor Jack Lait had learned a lot of the tricks to leading off news stories. In a column last week he recalled some memorable ones. Samples...
Lena Horne, a café au lait beauty, was not the kind of a girl to come onstage the way Josephine Baker had, with only a string of bananas girdling her hips. Obviously nervous, dressed in a square-shouldered white gown, Lena flashed her magnificent teeth in the spotlight and curtsied demurely. Then, as the lights went down and the rhythm began to pad out softly behind her, she slithered cosily up to the mike and began to sway. First she gave them It's Just One of Those Things in a low and sultry voice. By the time...
...life at Colombey is the simple one of a dedicated, single-minded man. He gets up at 8, breakfasts on café au lait, brown bread, a little butter and jam, then tackles his mail and newspapers. The food served at lunch is simple and the wine is an inexpensive vin rosé served from a carafe, but the meal is a leisurely one, lasting one and a half or two hours, and topped off by brandy, cigars and conversation. Malraux or Soustelle is often there, and nearly every top Government man from Ramadier down has been to Colombey...