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...Artie Angeleno" is green-eyed Jack (short for Jacquin Leonard) Lait Jr., 3 7 -year-old son of the New York Mirror's editor. A onetime screen writer and free lancer, he went to New York last summer to help his dad do vacation relief for Walter Winchell. He was a night-shift city deskman when his bosses shifted him to society a fortnight ago, set him up with an assistant and a telephone of his own. His assignment: to treat real society in cafe-society style. Lait's maiden column, sent to the Chief on approval, came...
...spotlight caught the show's two star nudes: blonde Parisienne Nicole Roy, café-au-lait Haitian Fortunia...
Like Considine's, the Crowther article was No. 1 in a series. But unlike Considine's, Crowther's kept on running. After hasty conferences, the Mirror's Editor Jack Lait tossed the Considine piece out of his later Sunday editions, and New Yorkers heard no more about Considine Parts II, III AND IV. Obviously the Crowther pieces (TRUMAN DIDDING U.S.TO ACCEPT MARXIAN IDEAS ) were the new official Hearst line. Crowed Crowther: "Hearst edited it himself...
Mugg-Maker. From his desk overlooking the street, on a dais where a coutouriére's models once paraded. Silverman fed items to fledgling Gossip Walter Winchell, made knowing muggs out of Jack Lait (now editor of Hearst's New York Mirror) and Columnist Louis Sobol, bought pieces from Quentin Reynolds, Funnymen Fred Allen, Joe Laurie Jr., Milton Berle. As show business became big business and Variety grew, he covered radio and the "niteries," added a Hollywood daily edition and bureaus in London and Paris, picked up scores of stringers in the U.S. and abroad...
...page cartoon, in four colors, showing Sidney Hillman playing Cardinal Wolsey to Henry Wallace's Cromwell (with a tin can tied to his robes). Earlier, the Tribune had called Sidney Hillman a "kingmaker," and enthusiastically described how he and Senator Harry Truman breakfasted over croissants and cafe au lait in Hillman's room at the Ambassador East Hotel. (Actually, they both had orange juice, bacon & eggs, coffee...