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...Columnist Eleanor Roosevelt mulled over a career woman's question for her newspaper readers. "Do I want to be called Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt or Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt? Of course, I want to be called the latter. ... I have never made any name for myself...
...Washington Columnist Thomas L. Stokes went the third annual Clapper Memorial Award, named for Stokes's good friend and onetime boss, the late Raymond Clapper. Said the citation of conscientious Tom Stokes: "Crusading spirit . . . tackles controversial issues . . . fairness in reporting both sides...
Broadway's Billy Rose knew a good show when he saw one. But this show was almost too good. Rose, a gentleman farmer as well as a newspaper columnist on the side, moaned last week: "I'd appreciate it if Mr. Burpee would take me off his list. Every year around" this time, he sends me a fancy seed catalogue. It's illustrated with pictures of pumpkins big as Cinderella's coach . . . lima beans so big that if Glenn Davis saw one he'd scoop it up and run for a touchdown. Each year...
Readers of syndicated Columnist Billy Rose got some inside dope that confirmed an old suspicion. Showman Rose, noted as a judge of beauty, confessed that "all this stuff about my being a picker of pretties is loo-proof malarkey. And the same goes for Ziegfeld, Carroll, White and Goldwyn. . . . Any boy who likes girls can pick them." How to do it for a show: "You put an ad in the paper. . . . Several hundred gals show up. . . . First you eliminate the impossibles. . . . You ask the remaining girls to parade. . . . What do you look for? The same things you look for when...
...finally settled for two new jobs-production assistant to Paramount's Henry Ginsberg, and columnist for King Features. Together, they would pay her about $100,000 a year. When she had 'made up her mind, The Face, 32, telephoned the home folks in New York. Said she: "Hey, shake hands with the richest kid in town...