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Shirley Temple, 14, periodically publicized as having grown yet a little bit more, was at last really grown up. Broadway Columnist Ed Sullivan gossiped: "Air Cadet Andrew Hotchkiss Jr. will pop the question to Shirley Temple." Litterateurs...
...woman had rashly written a letter to the Washington Post's corrosive "Mary Haworth" (real name: Elizabeth Young), complaining about having to wash her baby's diapers. That was how Columnist Haworth let her have it. Post readers...
Last week a woman asked Columnist Haworth for advice on how to keep her errant husband home. Among other things, she was told: "Your husband's encroaching predilection for ganging up with a stag party to loaf his nights away in cocktail lounges, buying drinks for bevies of uniformed women ... is spendthrift carousing...
Screens for Secrecy. Columnist Haworth, now in her 30s, reported for the Wilmington News-Journal in her native Ohio, then solicited ads for the Ohio State-Journal at Columbus. In 1930 she quit, married, went to Washington to live. She joined the Post in 1933, when her second child was still a baby, and after her marriage had gone on the rocks. She later got a divorce (in her column she calls divorce "social surgery" and "a desperate remedy for . . . sick relationship...
...thing about being a columnist, rather than a general reporter, is that the columnist can pursue his wretched muse all over the place, ignoring the sound and the fury all about him. Ignoring the NEWS, is what I mean to say. So in spite of frustrations of one kind and another such as are seen on every hand these days, we shall proceed with the usual whimsicalities...