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Protested: the will of Eleanor Medill ("Cissie") Patterson, late publisher of the Washington Times-Herald; by her only daughter, Countess Felicia Gizyclca (exwife of ex-Patterson Columnist Drew Pearson). Felicia, who ran away from home at 18, had been left most of Cissie's personal effects, some real estate, and an income of $25,000 a year for life. But the estate totaled better than $16 million (the Times-Herald was left to seven executives). Felicia protested to the court that her mother was not of "sound mind and memory" when she made the will, and that...
Taking off on vacation last month, the society gossip columnist of the Washington Times-Herald dashed off a cryptic farewell to her readers: "When I get back I'll be a CHANGED woman...
...Randolph Churchill, only son of Winston, would soon be a columnist without an audience. Because of "declining interest" (down to eight papers from a high of 35), United Feature Syndicate will drop his column Sept...
This week, when its author returned from vacation, he had a new contract with the Sun-Times at $22,500 a year, a 50% raise. That made Irv Kupcinet Chicago's second best-paid columnist, next to Chicago Tribune's Sport Editor Arch Ward ($50,000 a year). Kup is taking on other chores too; he has two radio jobs and was dickering last week for two more...
...extraverted, sometimes ungrammatical column that Kup's pub-crawling distils is blended with many predictions, on the usual columnist's theory that some are bound to come true. (About 50% do.) But it is written without malice or fakery...