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Hearstlings Walter Winchell and Cholly Knickerbocker broke the news: "Her Grace" was about to remarry. The supposed groom-to-be: Charles Andrews Munroe, 71, retired midwest utilitycoon and international-setter. Almost immediately the item withered. Mrs. Vanderbilt and Son Cornelius Jr., quoted by the World-Telegram: ". . . too silly for words." Mrs. Vanderbilt, quoted by Post Columnist Earl Wilson: "It's all nonsense!" Mrs. Morin Hare, supposed matron-of-honor-to-be, to reporters: "It's fantastic . . . ridiculous . . . an outrage . . ." Mrs. Hare added: "We're taking her up to Newport...
...casualty: Critic Burton Rascoe, who didn't like the show, and who quit as World-Telegram drama critic when his paper refused to print his stinging first-night review...
...strange and wonderful part of the nickel's worth that readers of the New York World-Telegram get each day is a garrulous nature column on the editorial page called "News outside the Door." Its 75-year-old author, J. Otis Swift, who has been writing it 24 years, is convinced that he accounts for 100,000 of the Telly's 387,087 readers. Last week, at Manhattan's Cornish Arms Hotel, white-shocked, sprightly J. Otis Swift was guest of honor at the 23rd Annual Ball and Reunion of the Yosian Brotherhood of Nature Philosophers...
...Egyptian collection (second only to Cairo's), rearranged it in 15 galleries and a great hall to show, among other things, that the ancient Egyptians rolled their equivalent of dice, drank beer, plucked their eyebrows and went in for pedicures. The New York World-Telegram's Art Critic Emily Genauer tartly accused the Met of showing more interest in archaeology than...
McCrary began his newspapering as a copy boy on the New York World-Telegram, kept secret the fact that he was a Yaleman. His only magazine experience: a period "during which I lived in an oxygen tent" on the old Literary Digest...