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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With that realization, he took the idea of the celebrity register to Earl Blackwell, proprietor of Celebrity Service, a New York-Hollywood enterprise that keeps charts on the famous. Over four years, the two put together 2,240 biographies.
"Now I don't say all of these things are bad. What I do deplore, however, is that growing emphasis on these devices tends to overshadow the editorial integrity of a magazine. In many instances, it looks to me from the outside as though the business office and the...
Born with a silver-plated spoon in his mouth, Amory (Harvard '39) has spent most of his postgraduate years doggedly following society's international trail. Somewhere between Boston and Bar Harbor he lost the scent, concluded gloomily that society was dead. "I realized," said Amory, "that the celebrity...
The result falls somewhere between Who's Who and Confidential. In a foreword Amory boasts that no one listed in the register "paid to get in-or, for that matter, to get out." The listing on Novelist Truman Capote says that he has "a foliage of blond and somehow...
One day last week, a teleprinter in the Los Angeles Mirror-News chattered excitedly with a strange bit of copy. "The following," began a story punched out 6 miles west, "is released by Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles, 4614 Sunset Boulevard. Attention city desks. Advance release. 'Mistletoe is for...