Word: sunman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Interviewed by a New York World-Telegram and Sunman, plain-spoken Actor Paul (A Hole in the Head) Douglas was quoted as having said: "Now there will always be an audience of slobs for Arthur Godfrey and Ed Sullivan-the slobs who like to be patronized by the kindly big shot." Douglas' corrected version: "What I said was, there will always be an audience for slobs like Arthur Godfrey." On a quick visit to Rome, TV Impresario Sullivan, according to a CBSpokesman, heard the original version and got "very, very mad." Just blown in from an African safari, Impresario...
Carefully furthering his foaming reputation as the wild man of U.S. letters, Chicago's seamy-side Novelist Nelson (A Walk on the Wild Side) Algren avidly snapped at some old-bone subjects dangled before him in Manhattan by a World-Telegram and Sunman. Of his erstwhile great and good friend, French Authoress Simone de Beauvoir, who unwarily dedicated her latest existentialist idyl, The Mandarins, to Algren: "A good female novelist ought to have enough to write about without digging up her own private garden. For me, it was just a routine relationship, and she's blown...
...news and prided itself on its financial, art and education pages, but it pinched pennies covering local news and often did not move as fast as it should. Once, when a World-Telegram reporter rushed through the Sun's city room to cover a stabbing, an amazed Sunman asked him if he was Frank Ward O'Malley because "nobody had hurried [here] since O'Malley left...