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...Boston American's ski columnist could not decide whether to call snow "the elusive white substance" or "the heavenly tapioca." And in Travel magazine, skiers slid down the slopes on "the beatified barrel staves...
Lucius Beebe, the dandy who swapped Manhattan's upholstered saloons last year for the publisher's desk on Nevada's Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, sang the praises of the rugged Nevada life to Columnist Leonard Lyons, but admitted that he still had a dude's taste for comfort. His bathroom contains, among other things, "my private barber chair, a reading rack of periodicals, phone extension, four slot machines, a crystal chandelier and a cuckoo clock...
...pinko PM, now defunct, in a series of columns signed Paul Revere II. Last week, at the second session of the pre-trial testimony in a $1,500,000 libel suit brought against Walter Winchell by the New York Post and its editor, James A. Wechsler (TIME, July 13), Columnist Winchell was cornered into a confession. Paul Revere II was Walter Winchell. Since King Features, which syndicates his column, had cut out his diatribes at Willkie, Winchell had put his left hand to work...
...Columnist Walter Winchell, who says he likes nothing better than "to step into the ring" to fight, is a hard man to crowd into a corner. He jabs so fast, moves so nimbly, that he seldom presents his numerous opponents with a solid target for counterblows. But last week, at the pre-trial examination in a $1,500,000 libel suit brought against him by the New York Post and its editor, James A. Wechsler, Winchell's footwork was not quite fancy enough. Witness Winchell, who has broadly implied that the Post and its editor are proCommunist, was drawn...
Three days later Columnist Winchell, who has nothing to lose in the libel suit but honor, since his newspaper and radio-TV contracts free him from financial responsibility for damages, explained his change of heart about Russia. Said he: "Such are the vagaries of history...