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...life story of Edna St. Vincent Millay," reported Gossip Columnist Danton Walker, "may be a new biographical film." A few days before, Walker had reported: "Alice B. Toklas . . . [is] returning here from Paris to buy a home in Oakland, Calif." But Columnist Walker (one of two newspapermen to make the Man of Distinction whiskey ads) was having a spell of undistinction.* In Austerlitz, N.Y., Pulitzer Prize Poetess Millay averred that she had never heard of such a thing. In Paris, the famed bosom friend of the late Gertrude Stein (The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas) announced: "I have no intention...
Also on the Forum's list were newspapermen Westbrook Pagler, Fulton Lewis Jr., and Raymond Heale; former Senator Philip LaFollette and Representative Mike Monroney, co-authors of the Congressional reorganization bill; and several members of the University faculty, but no one was willing to appear before a Forum audience...
That night González' press secretary called in newspapermen. The Government statement noted the rebirth of the Comintern, accused Cunja of plotting against Chile's independence and meddling in its internal affairs. Visitor Jakasa was pictured as an instruction-bearer from the Yugoslav Minister in Buenos Aires...
...occurred to anybody to give Boston's big, bad Ted Williams any batting advice. But when he hit a slump, everybody had a helpful idea. Someone suggested that he back away from the plate a few inches more. Snarled Williams: "I get all that sort of advice from newspapermen who can't hit, from pitchers and from .250 hitters. I'm not changing my position at the plate...
...teaching of these courses, the editorial continued, "seasoned politicians and such low characters as newspapermen, press agents, and even Tammany district leaders should play a prominent part...