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Meanwhile, circulation may be Ivoking for a third-class monarch with a Paris chit, sending flash acks for unflushed giftees, or getting a nonconvertible yen for an over-the-transom order...
...King's Transom." Jimmy Durante emerges from Fowler's pages as a strangely unworldly creature driven by a deep wish to be liked by everybody. He seems genuinely surprised to be making "a king's transom." He dislikes any sort of adulation: "I don't want nobody to put me on a pedasill." And he is a notorious soft touch: in 1935 a Broadway character known as Cooney the Boom formed a moochers' syndicate which touched Jimmy for $5 a head after each night's performance of Jumbo and then kicked back...
Critics called him "snoop" and "transom-peeper." One starlet angrily described his visit as a "personal affront." Ronald Reagan, president of the Screen Actors Guild, righteously insisted that "Hollywood is pretty much a goes-to-bed-with-the-chickens town." The press joined in with a delighted chorus of catcalls...
...Winchell, he "has had us at the very verge of war with Russia almost every Sunday night for the last two years [with] ... his constant poisoning of the well of public opinion." How had transom-peeker Winchell become an expert in foreign affairs? He had trained for it on items about "who was going to divorce whom, and who was going to have a baby, and approximately when." And he was fallible even there. With a scandalized look at the ethics of columnists, the Enquirer quoted him: "'The Monocle Set . ... doubt the recent rumor (that Queen Liz is enceinte...
Hippocrates. In Los Angeles, a burglar, climbing into the office of Dr. J. Lewis Bruce, slipped and fell through the transom, cut himself, telephoned the doctor, who came on the run and patched him up, refused to prosecute...