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When Hollywood's world-famed Gossip Columnist Louella O. (for Oettinger) Parsons (from her first husband) turned authoress and brought forth her autobiography, The Gay Illiterate (Doubleday. Doran; $2), her wise publishers jumped their publication date and rushed a few carloads of the remarkable volume to Hollywood's bookstores in time for the Christmas rout. The book sold like...
...anyone in Hollywood, the explanation was superfluous. At 9:30 each weekday morning, every Hollywood press-agent who values his professional life dials Crestview 1-4222, the Beverly Hills home and office of Columnist Parsons. However long it takes, he clings to the phone like a limpet until he gets through to her, for he must show his good faith. If he doesn't, Louella may take Borgia vengeance...
Roosevelt-hating Columnist Westbrook Pegler bluntly "explained" this genteel, political tug of war in a way that reflected no particular credit on anyone: "Lepke was the boss of a local of Sidney Hillman's Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America ... the union of a man who is one of the President's favorite unioneers. ... If Dewey could get possession of Lepke, he might persuade him to tell the whole story of his murderous, racketeering career in exchange for a commutation of his death sentence to life in prison...
Greta Garbo, reported Columnist Leonard Lyons, had taken up the Atalantan practice of strolling down Manhattan's Madison Avenue with an apple in each hand. Lyons failed to report...
...Next day Columnist Walter Lippmann agreed that "this is a great and necessary objective" and that each nation should perhaps at least guarantee that it will "make freely available to its people the official utterances of other States...