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...Columnist Leonard Lyons was the first to lift a bit of hide. Although Lyons...
...wrote his insulting letter to the Washington Post's music critic, Paul Hume. "I knew this was untrue," said name-dropper Lyons, "because I lunched with the President a few hours after he wrote the letter, and know personally that he had not been drinking." Not long after, Columnist Winchell slyly turned on Lyons when he was threatened with jail for refusing to name the source of news items in his column on Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the A-bomb spies (TIME, May 14). Lyons was conducting what he considered a gallant defense of freedom-of-the-press...
Scripps-Howard Columnist Robert Ruark heard about the discovery of 20 barrels of moonshine whisky on Bernard Baruch's South Carolina plantation, and thought he saw a chance to turn on a little fantasy for his readers...
After scrapping with Young for seven days, Medina decided that Young was more like a newspaper columnist who "colors things up," than a witness who could prove the Government's case. Anyway, said Medina, he would certainly take Young's "hell-raising propensities" into account when he evaluated his testimony...
...film job: a cowboy character part in a grade B western. Chaplin, now rich, white-haired, often mated (to four wives) and much berated (for his pinko leanings), announced that he had played the part of the Tramp for the last time. To Columnist Sidney Skolsky he said: "I've retired him. I'll never play him again, because he's got nothing more to say. I've been playing him for over 35 years. I no longer have any enthusiasm...