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...City Editor Leo Hirtl of the Cincinnati Post & Times-Star, the rumor that City Solicitor William McClain was in a jam rated a routine check. Since McClain had been seen around probate court the previous week, Hirtl sent a reporter to chat with court officials. The reporter discovered that McClain had appointed a man named William Jackson to appraise a recently settled estate. Jackson, it turned out, was a pseudonym for Norman S. Payne, a probate court employee who got a fee of $100, although he was not entitled to indulge in such moonlighting...
...Pundits Walter Lippmann, Joseph Alsop, Rowland Evans, Robert Novak, Henry J. Taylor, William F. Buckley Jr., William S. White, Bob Considine and Jim Bishop. For sports, there were Red Smith, Bill Slocum and Jimmy Cannon. And then, besides Buchwald and Schaap, there were Walter Winchell, Harriet Van Home, John McClain, Frank Farrell...
...like The Odd Couple, Smith abstemiously designs "a set no one will ever notice." It is primarily in musicals with undernourished books that he lets fly. Prime examples: Camelot, which glittered as if it had been ripped from a medieval Book of Hours, and was called by Critic John McClain "the most beautiful show in the world." Or in Baker Street, whose eyeball-melting panoply was likened by Walter Kerr to "three world's fairs rolled into...
...Saturday afternoon in New York, and the Journal-American's Columnist ("Man About Manhattan") and Theater Critic John McClain had a date with Mrs. Anne Ford, recently divorced from Henry Ford II. They were going to see the movie Tom Jones. And thereby hangs a tale...
...According to my theory," wrote McClain in a Runyonesque account, "the whole thing was preordained. We get there at 4 p.m. instead of 4:40 when the next showing begins." With time to kill, McClain and Mrs. Ford decided to have a cup of espresso. "It occurs to me that at such an hour on a Saturday afternoon in New York, the only places prepared to serve espresso coffee are large hotels. So I say why don't we go to the Regency, the new hotel at Park and 61st." Mrs. Ford suggested that they go to the Delmonico...