Word: louella
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Third from the Right. Last week, a quarter-century later, Hollywood Columnist Sheilah Graham, although she long ago refused the titled suitor, found herself still in Spot No. 3. Just to the right of her in the new and different kind of chorus line stood, in order of rank, Louella O. ("Lolly") Parsons, queen of Hollywood gossipists, and Hedda Hopper, undisputed heiress apparent to Lolly-until Sheilah came along to contest the succession...
Then Columnist Hedda Hopper, archrival of Hearst's own Louella Parsons, broke the big news: on Nov. 5, 1950, Hearst had called in Miss Davies, his companion through 32 years, and with her signed a voting trust agreement. It provided that on his death, she would become the sole voting trustee of the Hearst Corp., the empire's top holding company, and would remain so for life...
Died. Dr. Harry Watson Martin, 61, since 1937 medical director of 20th Century-Fox Studios, husband of famed Hollywood Gossip Columnist Louella O. ("Lolly") Parsons in one of the film colony's happiest marriages; of an undiagnosed ailment contracted while on South Pacific duty in World War II with the Army Medical Corps; in Hollywood...
...Louella Parsons, Hollywood writer, reported in a column last night that Brigadier General Crawford A. Sams, Visiting Lecturer on Public Health and chief of the Army Medical Corps in Korea, had received offers from several motion picture studies for the right to the story of his exploits...
With all due respect to Thomas Ybarra, John Bartlett, Christopher Morley, Louella D. Everett, David McCord, and Mr. Train, the reviewer still considers the poem "lifeless," trite," and "unfunny...