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...When two Crimson editors stole the Lampoon's mascot, a large metal stork named Ibis, and presented it to Stalin as a gift from American students, and then the 'Poonies retalisted by reporting this flagrant example of Communist sympathizing to the McCarthy committee, it was funny," Smith writes. "The laughter died quickly however, when McCarthy attacked Harvard for its decision to retain three instructors who had supported the Communist cause...
...Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood, has written a benchmark biography that fuses meticulous research with a deft grasp of the cultural nuances of an era when virtually everyone who mattered paid homage to Winchell at his table at Manhattan's celebrity hangout, the Stork Club. Gabler captures everything except the essence of Winchell's breathless dot-dot-dot tabloid style. Never does the author parse an entire column or broadcast to make Winchell accessible to a generation that only dimly recalls him as the narrator of the 1960s TV series The Untouchables. A few days before...
...portrayal of gossipmonger J.J. Hunsecker in the 1957 film The Sweet Smell of Success. (In real life, Winchell, in cinema noir fashion, had his daughter Walda carted off to an asylum in a straitjacket in paternal rage against an unsuitable marriage.). The same haunting sense of hubris at the Stork Club animates Michael Herr's artful 1990 rendition of the columnist's life, Walter Winchell: A Novel...
...first decision an adopting couple must make is which country. Many factors are involved, including the bureaucratic barriers that will stand in their way. But Stork, a British organization founded by adoptive parents with foreign-born children, recommends that applicants choose a land for which they can develop some affection, since it will figure prominently in their lives as their child grows older...
...trade tattle and pillow talk backstage at the crummy vaudeville theaters he plays. Within a decade he moves center stage, prowling Manhattan for scoops and scandal, making himself as feared and famous as the people he features in his column. Looking at dancers snuggling close one night at the Stork Club, his personal action-central, Winchell remarks, "Personally, I think it's all for show." Asks his long-suffering wife June: "But for whose benefit?" Replies a surprised Walter: "For whose benefit? For my benefit...