Word: robb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attending tonight's Jubilee, complete to yesterday noon: JUBILEE COMMITTEE Harvey C. Taylor Jr., bairman Laila Ernet, Brookline John P. Bunker Barbara Boyden, Winnetka, Ill. Thomas C. Carroll Melen Ransom, Nashville, Tenn. Thomas L. Higginson Sally Russell, Brookline George N. Hurd Marjorie Handy, New York Endicott Peabody II Roberts Robb, Brookline Robert T. Abbott Clare Wardaworth, Boston Berrien P. Anderson Mary Anderson, San Francisco Roger Angell Evelyn Baker, Weston Elisha Atkins Elsa Mohr, Philadelphia Charles A. Baker Alice Ann Moore, Newport, R. I. Hugh S. Harbour Maria Kidder, New York City Yale A. Harkan Elinore Glazier, Belmont Daniel D. Barker...
Zippy comments like these on "People Who Matter'' have long been the highly marketable stock-in-trade of smart, nosey Inez Callaway Robb, who for the last ten years has been sticking pins into stuffed shirts as "Nancy Randolph'' of the world's biggest tabloid, Manhattan's daily News. This week blue-eyed Inez Robb, chic and peppy at 36 despite her greying hair, started on a brand new job as "roving reporter," covering U. S. and international high life for the rival New York Mirror and more than 100 other papers lined...
Inez Callaway Robb's career has been the kind every pencil-nibbling journalism-school co-ed dreams about. California-born and Idaho-raised, she earned her first silk stockings scribbling high-school notes for the city editor of the Boise Capital News, a next-door neighbor. After a course at University of Missouri's famed School of Journalism, she landed a reporting job on the Tulsa World, pasted everything she wrote into a scrapbook. One day, between trains in Chicago, she dropped into the Tribune office, left the scrapbook. Within a fortnight she had a wire from...
...Manhattan she felt at home as soon as she walked into her first Christmas Eve party and saw her future husband, Adman J. Addison Robb Jr. "He had a little black mustache and shook up the cocktails. He was just my idea of a city slicker." When, after 18 months, Publisher Patterson suddenly promoted her to society editor, she simply carried her notebook and pencil to debutante parties and night clubs, asked friendly photographers to point out important faces...
What she brought to society reporting was not only a gift of phrase, but a lively news sense, and the ability to see the group she records as a current in the general news stream. When Broker Richard Whitney crashed, Reporter Robb's column was devoted to reporting what lunchers at "21" and the Colony had to say about it. Few society reporters take so newsworthy an approach. She spurns the usual drivel of rumor and chitchat...