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Twentieth Century-Fox could not take it. Scores of disillusioned cinemaddicts had written letters to express their horror at the idea that 20th Century's beglamored Gene Tierney smoked cigars. The studio told NBC to fire the man who said so (Hollywood Gossip Columnist Jimmie Fidler) or no 20th Century star could ever appear on the network again...
...tape item of the week, reported by Washington Post Columnist Jerry Kluttz...
Separate fires broke out in Dorothy Thompson's home in Manhattan, and in Governor-Elect Thomas E. Dewey's home in Pawling, N.Y. The columnist's fire started in a secret washroom (its door a swinging bookcase), burned up 600 books, smoked her out for the night. The Governor-elect's fire spread from a defective flue in the fireplace; firemen chopped a hole in the side of the house...
Recollecting the former indifference of the student body even when the three teams on which he played were undefeated, Hardwick said, "After Harlow came, his spirit went right through the team to the students." The Harvard grid immortal, now columnist for a Boston paper, declared, "They rate your support body, boots, and breeches. Win lose, or draw they'll do you proud...
Young Man's Return. In the '30s, Herbert Sebastian Agar, poet, playwright, columnist and editor, returned from London to the U.S. disgusted with the aftermath of World War I, feeling that there was little in Europe worth fighting for. So he concentrated on U.S. domestic problems. In 1934 he won the Pulitzer prize for history with The People's Choice, a study of U.S. Presidents. Other books followed, but with the approach of World War II Agar began to feel that the U.S. had an important stake in world affairs...