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...suspects-Chicago newspapers have treated the mass slaying of eight student nurses with reasonable restraint. Headlines and stories have been as cool as the event permits. Still, in collecting the lurid details, one paper has had a clear advantage. Chicago's American was able to unleash Harry ("Romy") Romanoff, 74, the last of the city's great Front Page, get-the-story-at-all-costs reporters...
When Texas City, Texas, caught fire in 1947, Romanoff got on the phone. "Should the area be declared a disaster area?" he asked. "What's needed down there?" The mayor, the Red Cross and top police officials, thinking that they were giving the White House a firsthand report of the damage and injuries, wound up giving Romanoff more information than any other reporter came close to collecting...
...said to have called up the nun in charge, passed himself off as a representative of the cardinal's office, kept pumping her for details which he needed, he said, to plan supplies for the survivors. On hearing that Millionaire Fight Promoter Tex Rickard was seriously ill, Romanoff promptly rang up Mrs. Rickard. "This is Governor Len Small of Illinois," he intoned. "I am distressed to hear of the illness of my old friend Tex. Tell me, Mrs. Rickard, how is he?" "He's dying, Governor," the tearful spouse replied, and Romanoff had another scoop...
...plaid taffeta by Dior. But it was more than that, and the reception at the estate of CBS Chairman Paley proved a crossroads of several worlds: Mr. and Mrs. Winston Guest, Actress Lauren Bacall, Mr. Kenneth (the hairdresser), Columnist Joseph Alsop, Publisher John Hay Whitney, Hollywood's Mike Romanoff, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., who flew in from London to be one of 19 ushers. Said Paley when the affair was over: "I wish we had a wedding every week. What are we going to do next week...
Grand Fenwick is the same country that won World War III in The Mouse that Roared and more or less the same principality which Peter Ustinov presided over in Romanoff and Juliet. This time the Fenwickians win the space race in a rocket supplied by the Soviet Union, financed by the United States, and fueled with the wine of Grand Fenwick. But the story isn't crucial; it's simply an excuse for a machine-gun-fast series of gags satirizing such juicy targets as international diplomacy, German scientists, student peace marchers, and American grammar...