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Death of the Charter. The New York Times, never an idle rumormonger, and by reputation the U.S. newspaper most concerned with the conduct of foreign affairs, led the field in publication of discussion of the present dangers. But a variety of voices were heard. Columnist Dorothy Thompson, with rare lack of emotion, told the U.S. some news which Washington had carefully not released...
Philip Van Doren Stern, Manhattan publisher, was noted by The Saturday Review of Literature's Columnist Bennett Cerf for his quick response to a suggestion that Armed Services Editions (of which he is an editor) print The Ten Commandments. Mulled Stern, who once worked for best-selling literary treasurers Simon & Schuster: "How about using only five of them and calling it A Treasury of the World's Best Commandments...
Said Ethel to New York Post Columnist Earl Wilson: "That poem I couldn't go anywhere without. ... I ask Him for so much. I guess I keep Him scufflin'. . . . Oh, darling I used to be the kind of woman, if I was mad at you ... I had a look that was poison ivy. . . . But now ... it's eight, nine years since I asked...
Paul Whiteman, 313-lb. band leader turned 195-lb., Blue Network musical director, was observed by Manhattan Columnist Lucius Beebe "bolting" from the Blue for the 5:31 train to his Rosemont (NJ.) "Paul Whiteman Walking Horse Farm." There, noted Beebe, Whiteman keeps 150 pipes, 100 suits, 75 pairs of "costly, hand-tooled" town shoes, 24 pairs of riding boots, 15 saddles (one silver-mounted), one dozen staticless radios, enough phonograph records to make the planning of a disk-house no idle talk...
...Flashed Columnist Walter Winchell last fortnight of Author Melville Grossman: "That's the nom de typewriter of Producer Darryl Zanuck." It is one of three generated when Zanuck was with Warner Bros. The others: Mark Canfield, Gregory Rogers. Reason: exhibitors objected to plethora of films credited to Darryl Zanuck. (In one year he scripted 19 films...