Word: oursler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fulton Oursler was founding the tabloid New York Graphic for Bernarr Macfadden. Through a vaudeville friend named Norman Frescott, Winchell met Oursler, whose poetry Winchell had been cheerfully rejecting from the Vaudeville News. Oursler said he thought the rejections showed good editorial judgment, hired Winchell for $100 a week to be the Graphic's theatre critic and conduct a column first called "Broadway Hearsay," later "Your Broadway and Mine." The first item was some verse by "W. W." entitled A Newspaper Poet's Love...
Because this letter is now acknowledged by Editor Oursler to be a forgery, allegedly by one Miss Kathryn Martin Lambert to whom Oursler paid $100 "as a pure gratuity" shortly before starting suit, Editor Oursler petitioned the New York court last month to permit him to discontinue the action. Last week, over the protest of Mrs. Macfadden that Editor Oursler knew the letter was a forgery when he began suit, discontinuance was granted...
...Said Oursler's attorney, Arthur Garfield Hays, famed counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union: "The case is closed. We've done what we started to do-stop Mrs. Macfadden talking against Oursler...
Said Mrs. Macfadden's attorney, Gustave B. Garfield: "We intend swearing out criminal warrants against Mr. Oursler and Miss Lambert. Producing a document in writing purporting to come from another person for the purpose of damaging his or her reputation is a felony under New York penal...
...Oursler said nothing. Announced his secretary: "Mr. Oursler has gone on a five weeks' vacation to China...