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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the uncanny prescience of the born reporter, Lolly was there when it happened-well, almost. From Rome last week, junketing Hollywood Columnist Louella O. Parsons cabled a gushing lead to the Hearstpapers: "Wouldn't you know that I'd be within two blocks of the scene at the very time Angelo* Pallante attempted to kill Palmiro Togliatti, the most dangerous Communist in Italy!" Louella's story: she and Actress Merle Oberon were on a shopping expedition when the attempted assassination took place. The tragic result: "Neither of us was able to finish the buying of gifts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Wouldn't You Know! | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

...Louella Parsons, whose program follows Winchell's on the air, is also sponsored by Jergens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Busy Air | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

...three types: 1) a wife's (or husband's, or sister's, or laundress') eye view of how the popular favorite "really lives"; 2) the shopgirl-to-star Cinderella story; 3) discreet gossip-usually handled (for up to $1,000 a story) by Hedda Hopper, Louella Parsons, Sidney Skolsky or some other expert big enough to flout studio censorship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Opinion Leaders | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

Pressagents live for your column, Everyone's hustling you. Oh, how we love you, Louella, And your goo newspapers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: We Love You, Louella! | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

Newsboys dashed in among the tables, hawking fresh "editions" of the Examiner with screamlines: LOUELLA SURROUNDED! FILM LEADERS IN TRIBUTE TO Miss PARSONS. About midnight, the preliminaries over, the guests settled down to watch the entertainment (Dinah Shore, Edgar Bergen, Eddie Cantor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: We Love You, Louella! | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

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