Word: towns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Times had signed on 25 new staffers, was quietly organizing them into reporter-photographer teams. Stringbean-shaped U.P. man Phil Ault, who had worked with Pinkley in London and North Africa, had started pounding a Times police beat-traditional prep school for prospective city editors in a strange town...
...Times was talking, but almost everyone else in town was. The rumor: that the Times was about to start a new afternoon paper (Los Angeles has three A.M.s but only...
Enhancing Milady. If anybody knows about Hollywood nightclubs, and how to get a room jumping, it's Herman Hover. When he took an option on the famed Giro's six years ago, he was taking on the town's No. 1 white elephant. When a fire gutted it shortly afterward, his prospects looked even worse. But four years ago this month Hover started up again: the place has been jumpy ever since. It didn't seem to matter what happened to Hollywood-congressional investigations, hirings & firings, falling box office-so long as people could hash...
...long odds, his favorite channel of communication with other human beings. Since he sleeps only when he is sleepy, he calls up his lieutenants at all hours of the night. Sometimes he identifies himself as "Mr. Hoyt." He has had a number of other aliases, including one for the Town House in Los Angeles, one for the tailors from whom he never buys any clothes, and one which he used, years ago, when he got a job as co-pilot with American Airlines ($250 a month but good experience...
Early in his Hollywood career, the town gossips began dividing Hughes's women friends into two classes: 1) the established celebrities-Billy Dove, Lana Turner, Linda Darnell, Bette Davis, Gloria Baker, Ruth Moffett, et al.-with whom he was seen in public; and 2) the young, eager and not too prudish unknowns with whom he was almost never seen in public. Hughes has a harsh word for the latter: he calls them "crows." But even from them he fears a rebuff. It is part of Meyer's job to see that the green light is up before Hughes...