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Washington Columnist Ruth Montgomery reported that oldtime Cinemactress Mary Pickford, during a recent White House visit, recalled a White House lunch in 1924 during which President Calvin Coolidge spoke only once: "Early in the luncheon, Mrs. Coolidge had informed her husband that Mrs. Howard Chandler Christy, wife of the artist, was ill. Silent Cal merely grunted. Finally, two courses later, he peered over his spectacles and mumbled, 'D'jasendflowers...
...York Daily News Gossip Columnist Ed Sullivan discovered that a pro-Communist weekly, National Guardian (circ. 47,000), had bought a block of 300 seats for the April 8 performance of Wonderful Town, starring Rosalind Russell. The magazine planned to resell the tickets in a fund-raising campaign. Wrote Sullivan: "I'm quite sure, Rosalind, that you'll step out of this . . . job for the Kremlin." Producer Robert Fryer canceled the April 8 performance, told ticket holders they would get their money back...
...columnist for the Scripps-Howard chain and 152 other newspapers around the U.S., Robert Ruark, 37, makes close to $75,000 a year with a brew of simple ingredients. "I'm cute, angry, loud, puckish or perverse every day in print " he says. But Ruark feels he has outstayed his welcome as a New York columnist. Furthermore, he isn't "having...
There was a columnist called Fulton Lewis, Jr., and he was as different a man from John Hancock as 180 years could produce. He called the Community Church's speakers left-wing and radical. He would have said that of John Hancock when he signed his name in broad quill strokes to the Declaration of Independence...
...direction and the acting of an adept cast. Director Lang tells his story mostly with the camera, and gives the picture a brisk pace that helps conceal its slack spots. Anne Baxter makes a thoroughly attractive murder suspect, and Richard Conte as the newsman is such a demon columnist that he apparently never even has to bother to write a column...