Word: louella
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus reported TIME Correspondent Jon Larsen on his encounter with the woman who is responsible for reviving a dying institution-the Hollywood gossip column. Even before Louella Parsons' retirement in 1965 and Hedda Hopper's death in 1966, movieland chatter seemed to have lost its appeal. Did anyone really care any longer about those dreary Hollywood divorces and adulteries? Still, Haber's column, syndicated for little more than a year and now running in 93 newspapers, has won a sizable general readership as well as the respect and fear of cinematic celebrities. For good reason. Haber...
Died. Cora Baird, 55, puppeteer; of cancer; in Manhattan. With her husband Bil, she created a magic world of dancing figures and impish characters, and for 30 years their Baird puppets, starring Hedda Louella McBrood and Edward R. Bow-Wow, entertained countless children in films, on TV and in shows from India to the White House...
GOOD COMPANY (ABC, 10-10:30 p.m.). Attorney F. Lee Bailey takes a swing into Virginia for a chat with Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen (R., Ill.) and his wife, Louella, on their farm in Sterling...
...Sleeping Alone. Her career as an actress was brief but profitable. While she was still in the movies she sniffed every breath of scandal, sized up every star and starlet. When she was through in pictures, she was ready to challenge Louella Parsons as Queen of the Glamourmongers. In 1936 she talked her way onto radio, and in 1938 into her own syndicated column. She and Lolly never got along after that...
Dorothy Manners, fiftyish, takes over Louella Parsons' Hollywood gossip column. She is ready for the job. She has assisted Louella for 30 years and has written the column herself for the past year because of Louella's failing health. Nonetheless, she modestly admits, "I feel a little bit like a buck private in a general's uniform...