Word: mirroring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...authors: Jack Lait, aging (69) editor of Hearst's New York Mirror and onetime topflight Chicago reporter, and the Mirror's 47-year-old Nightclub Columnist Lee Mortimer, who had a brief brush with fame when Frank Sinatra knocked him down, supposedly because Mortimer had called him names...
...Curtis . . . silk hat by Locke . . . monk shoes by Fortnum and Mason's . . . crystal and diamond links by Boucheron . . . gold cigarette case by Asprey ... a drop of rose geranium on my handkerchief." But Beverley was not at ease. While he dressed and sipped a sidecar, he stared into his mirror and asked himself anxiously: "What is wrong with you? Why aren't you happy...
...even that. The boys' candor comes at the sacrifice of coverage; they leave big areas of corruption severely untouched. One piquant example is their soft-pedaling of the numbers racket. The omission may stem from the fact that the newspaper Lait now edits (The New York Daily Mirror) prints daily figures from which enterprising readers work out numbers results...
...gossip columns of either journal can ruin a Hollywood breakfast, bring final collapse to a shaky reputation, endanger an expensive production or send shudders through an entire studio. The Manhattan executive branches of the movie companies (available to Sheilah through her column m the New York Daily Mirror) also read the gossipists carefully for unflattering news and views of the West Coast. No one in movies is entirely safe from the heavy-heavy that Parsons, Hopper, Graham and other big-shot commentators hang constantly over Hollywood heads. Through her syndicated column for the North American Newspaper Alliance, Sheilah also tattles...
...book, by Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, two New York Daily Mirror reporters, purports to be an expose on how "greedy groups and misguided ninnies" are making a nightmare of "man's great dream"--America. In one chapter it states that "Harvard is so gay you can hear the swish across the River Charles," and follows this closely with: "Girl queers breed at Wellesley and at many of the fine finishing schools...