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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pittsburgh last week, Newscaster Paul Long, speaking casually on NBC's network show News of the World, announced: "John L. Lewis just shot Santa Claus. That's what one miner told me today in commenting on the coming coal strike...
...camera, because "if I'm having fun I ain't looking anywhere." Program suggestions from his sponsor (Ford Dealers) and TV Director Earl Ebi are welcome so long as they do not violate the College's basic Simple-Simon format. Remembering the one disastrous show that resulted when he took his wife's advice, Kyser says firmly: "It's only when you try to get too professional and want to class it up that you fall flat on your face...
...Sister Browning, a veteran of five years on the Trib and currently winning more Page One bylines than any other city staffer, borrowed some red & green ankle-strapped shoes from a Trib secretary and took off her wedding ring. She bought a scarlet coat, laid on a heavy job of make-up and went forth in her new identity: a country girl who had gone wrong but was seeking help to go straight...
...yacht-murder of Playboy John Lester Mee (TIME, May 5,1947). She scooped a horde of male reporters by getting aboard the police-impounded yacht and scampering off with Mee's diary. Last March she got Septuagenarian Vic Shaw to tell the intimate story of her life as one of Chicago's best-known madams. (She sneeringly told Norma she was such a "little cracker you wouldn't be no good in a house.") Last summer Norma went after Chicago's quack doctors and had everything from electric vibrators to "atom water" prescribed for her imaginary...
...first secretary at Britain's Washington embassy during World War II, broad, black-haired Isaiah Berlin developed two bad habits: he was always late to work (he likes to sleep until 10:30), and always the last to appear at a dinner party. No one minded. His flashing dinner talk never failed to charm Washington hostesses and capital pundits. And his brilliant reports on U.S. thinking and doing made him Winston Churchill's most penetrating official observer of wartime America...