Word: smells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...July 22), "will not fight Floyd Patterson for the heavyweight championship of the world." He ribaldly admired the way Golfer Louise Suggs "drops her shorts on each green" and suggested to Hollywood Composer Dimitri Tiomkin some popular lyrics for new movies: "You are a mess, you are my Sweet Smell of Success"; "The day they hanged my daddy, mother was just A Face in the Crowd." To the dismay of NBC brass, he lashed out at the New York World-Telegram's Critic Harriet Van Home because she accused him of a lack of brashness...
...without-it school tremble at his name. Says Richardson Alumnus Robert W. Kenny, former California Attorney General: "The palms of my hands still sweat when I talk to that man on the phone." Though his rages often tied the city room in knots. Richardson's intuitive ability to smell out sensational news and get it covered has given "the Examiner's news columns a high luster. In the still unsolved Black Dahlia killing and the Overell murder, Richardson was usually a leap ahead of the cops, often brought in authors such as Adela Rogers St. Johns to make...
...Sweet Smell of Success. A nauseous whiff of the rat-tat-tattling of a megalomaniacal Broadway columnist and his fawning hatchetman; with Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis cracking whiplash dialogue (TIME, June...
...Sweet Smell of Success, the searing analysis of a power-mad and incestuous newspaper columnist and a toadying, conscienceless press agent, will be at the UT next Wednesday through Saturday...
...Sweet Smell of Success. A whiff of the rat-tat-tattle machinations of a poison-penned Broadway columnist and his hatchetman; with Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis (TIME, June...