Word: cassini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Columnist Igor Cassini, who as Cholly Knickerbocker is Hearst's No. i know-it-all-&-tell-it-all on society, got scooped on a gossipy item involving his stylish wife, Austine Cassini, writer of society gossip for the Washington Times-Herald. In a rival paper, Cassini read a breathless, unconfirmed rumor that "Bootsie"-dubbed last year the Most Magnificent Doll Among American Newspaperwomen-had settled down in Reno to divorce...
...Howard Hughes, the West Coast plane builder, movie producer and bachelor millionaire. Last February, the SWIC, now headed by Maine's loud and mistrustful Owen Brewster, sniffed at Hughes again. The committee was still sniffing cautiously last week when a rank outsider, slight, swarthy Society Columnist Igor Cassini (Cholly Knickerbocker), suddenly lit on an angle that took the sniffing out of congressional back rooms and into the headlines. The Hughes probe was loaded with girls...
...short on wit, style and ingenuity. Yet most of it is pleasant enough fun, and pretty to watch. Harrison, apparently modeling himself after Bernard Shaw as a boy of 40, sports a handsome beaver. Miss Tierney wears beautiful turn-of-the-century dresses designed by her former husband, Oleg Cassini; her acting is neither better nor worse than usual. Edna Best is skilled and sweet as her maid, and George Sanders obviously enjoys playing a ninny, for a change, instead of the velvet scourge of womankind...
Divorced. Oleg Cassini, 34, Hollywood dressmaker, erstwhile Russian count; by Gene Tierney, 26, sulky cinemactress, onetime (1938) Connecticut debutante; after six years, one child; in Los Angeles...
...less comprehensive title was awarded to Austine Cassini, modish Washington Times-Herald columnist. The title: "Most Magnificent Doll among American Newspaperwomen." The loot: a silver-plated typewriter. Also a trip to the premiere of a movie titled The Magnificent Doll...