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...guests never heard it. Last week Hearstling George Dixon, professional Washington funnyman and not a member of the Gridiron Club, told what had happened. The club had decided to snub Harry Truman in May as the President had snubbed the club in December. The record was not played. Chided Columnist Dixon: "A spirit of pique and wounded self-importance...
When a newspaperman gets beaten up while on the job, his colleagues usually have a sympathetic word for him. But last week, in Hearst's New York Mirror, Columnist Walter Winchell cracked: "The attack on a newspaperman by 'unknown' assailants . . . reminds the wags of critic [Alexander] Woollcott-of whom it was quipped: 'If that guy's ever found murdered-half the population of N.Y. will be held under suspicion...
...newspaperman Winchell was talking about was his Mirror colleague, Nightclub Columnist Lee Mortimer, 45, whose previous publicized licking was administered by weedy Crooner Frank Sinatra at Hollywood's Ciro's nightclub. This time Welterweight (138 Ibs.) Mortimer was beaten by an unidentified thug at 1:45 a.m. in the washroom of New Jersey's Riviera nightclub, while another thug stood by. When Mortimer came to, with two black eyes and a swollen jaw, he asked: "Who hit me?" But later, he told the Mirror that it must have been a gangland beating in retaliation for Mortimer...
Despite Mortimer's insistence on the revenge motive, Fellow Columnist Winchell, who also knows a gangster or two, pooh-poohed the claim: "Underworlders can't believe 'any of the Mob' did it-on the grounds that beating up newspapermen 'is hard luck...
Maximum Effort. In Manila, P.I., Columnist Ernesto del Rosario of the Chronicle suggested that the new republic's austerity program might be more successful if government officials would: 1) limit the cost of their wives' party dresses to $500 or less each, and 2) not make the state support the "other woman...