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When a newspaperman gets beaten up while on the job, his colleagues usually have a sympathetic word for him. But last week, in Hearst's New York Mirror, Columnist Walter Winchell cracked: "The attack on a newspaperman by 'unknown' assailants . . . reminds the wags of critic [Alexander] Woollcott-of whom it was quipped: 'If that guy's ever found murdered-half the population of N.Y. will be held under suspicion...
...foreign news-gathering and news-editing machine is Managing Editor Edwin Leland James, 59. Jaunty "Jimmy" James was a star reporter himself during World War I and in postwar Paris. A 35-year veteran of the Times, Virginia-born James still carries a cane and affects what Alexander Woollcott once admiringly called a manner of "extreme truculence, tinged with contempt." Occasionally, in a break from Times tradition, he bursts from his private office off the southwest corner of the city room, waving his cigar and copy and shouting, "This stinks," or something stronger...
...last 25 years" by 330 U.S. radio editors in a Radio Daily poll published last week. Bing Crosby ran a close second. Tied for third place: Bob Hope and Amos 'n' Andy. Also-rans: Walter Winchell, Arthur Godfrey, Lowell Thomas, Major Bowes, H. V. Kaltenborn, Alexander Woollcott, Will Rogers...
...afford a good tailor ("I'm a well-dressed man!" he indignantly insists) and curbs his hair, but he has somehow managed to retain the air of permanent dishevelment. Once ex-New Yorker Writer Margaret Case Harriman called Ross "that lovable old volcano," and the late Alexander Woollcott described him as "Dodsworth, with an overlay of violence." Ross is still personally noisy and professionally restrained, still charmingly churlish and intelligently ignorant, but his reputation for irascibility exceeds his performance...
Died. Neysa McMein Baragwanath, sixtyish, magazine-cover illustrator (Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, McCall's) and portrait artist whose Manhattan studio was once a famed meeting place for artists and writers (Dorothy Parker, Edna Ferber, the late Ring Lardner, Robert Benchley and Alexander Woollcott); following an operation; in Manhattan...