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...know," he said, "they all expected me to have a lot of inside dope to tell them-stuff we had never published. The week before they had heard some columnist who positively radiated the impression that he knew all sorts of important things his newspaper had never told. But again and again when they asked me what the real truth was about this or about that, I just had to tell them that all I knew was what I read in TIME-that some of our people had worked for weeks to make sure our story on that subject...
Most typical, perhaps, of the strictly Broadway columnists who have been lured to broader if not greener pastures is the New York Daily News's Danton Walker (real name: Dan). Five days a week Walker writes a column naturally enough entitled "Broadway," for an estimated 5,000,000 readers of the News, (circulation: 2,000,000) and seven other metropolitan newspapers. Only a handful of Danton Walker's columns this year have featured the old-style, peeping-Tom type of item; most of his columns, filled now chiefly with predictions, are about such non-Broadway matters...
Background for Broadway. Dapper Dan Walker became a Broadway columnist by accident. Georgia-born and 44 years old, he is a 145-lb. man with thin brown hair and a well-scrubbed look, who manages to look neat even after a seven-hour nightclub tour. He makes a fetish of cleanliness, gloomily anticipates a soap shortage, which he feels will be deliberate ly manufactured by the Government be cause "they'll want us to get used to living without soap so we'll be able to get along with all the foreigners who'll be coming...
Said Sports Columnist Grantland Rice: "No one is going to stop gambling...
Twenty years after her first marriage, 15 months after her second divorce (from Sinclair Lewis), vigorous Columnist Dorothy Thompson said her next would be Maxim Kopf, refugee Czech painter...