Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When newly-serious Poet Dorothy Parker and Lillian Hellman, both highly paid Hollywood scenarists, returned from a Spanish junket last fall, their strong feminine sympathies were all on the side of the Loyalists. Fortnight ago, in a restaurant tête-à-tête with her good friend Mr. Winchell, Miss Hellman told a harrowing tale of mad nights in Valencia and Madrid when she saw non-combatants dodge into shell-pocked doorways to escape death from...
Over three weeks ago a bitter ruction broke out in print among the elite of U. S. sportswriters when New York News Sports Editor Jimmy Powers reproached some of his fellows for an alleged alliance with sharp Promoter Mike Jacobs. New York Mirror Sports Editor Dan Parker countered that "Screwball Bowers" had "appropriated" word for word a Herbert Gorem sports story from the New York Sun, "used it ... in his syndicated out-of-town column...
Fortnight ago at the Braddock-Farr fight fists flew when Sun Sportswriter Ed Van Every repeated Dan Parker's charge to Jimmy Powers' face (TIME, Jan. 31). Last week this phase of the unseemly friction between Editor Powers and most of the rest of his colleagues closed with a letter printed in Dan Parker's column "in justice to Jimmy Powers. . . ." "Dear Mr. Parker...
Died. Gerald ("Jerry") Vultee, 38, aircraft designer (Vultee Transport), and wife, Sylvia Parker Vultee, 27; when his own plane caught fire in mid-air and crashed on Wilson Mountain, near Flagstaff, Ariz...
Next day Dan Parker, sports editor of the Hearst Mirror, retaliated with his own fairy tale which began: "Once upon a time there was a dwarf named Screwball Bowers. Now, Screwball wasn't like other dwarfs. He was dwarfed only from the neck up." Parker's parable went on to belittle Screwball Bowers' sports knowledge, questioned his sincerity and significantly wound up with a reference to a tale that had been going the sporting rounds for some time: "He was also honest in the case of Jack Smiley, who wrote a column for Screwball's paper...