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...rumor first appeared in the column of a New York sports-writer and was reprinted in a local paper. The assumption is that the columnist made a deduction from the case of "Pop" Warner whose assistants preceded him to his job at Stanford, but it was made perfectly clear yesterday that Pennsylvania's importation of the "Harlow system" would stop short of its originator...
...reporter who did not get in was Columnist Heywood Broun, an accomplished Green-baiter. He was barred by Mr. Green's new pressagent, Philip Pearl, who resented Broun's description of his job as "streamlining" Bill Green...
...Jersey's ex-Governor Harold G. Hoffman this week began a syndicated daily column in several New Jersey newspapers. Wrote Columnist Hoffman: "This column . . . represents the outcropping of frustrated desire. When a youngster I wrote a column of fishing news for my home-town weekly. . . ." The ex-Governor's syndicators, hoping to spike rumors that Mr. Hoffman might use the column in fishing for 1940 reelection, promised that it "never will be used to foster any personal ambitions...
...Write it for me, write it!" Columnist Winchell snapped anxiously. She did. Friend Winchell was enthusiastic over her story, but his enthusiasm was wasted. King Features Syndicate, which distributes Winchell's work, spent two days thinking about it, then flatly rejected Miss Hellman's guest column. Hearst editors condemned her account as Loyalist propaganda and brushed aside Host Winchell's stubborn defense of his guest. Two days later the Hearst New York Journal and American favored ex-Japanese Ambassador W. Cameron Forbes with a big headline: "EX-ENVOY FORBES HAILS FRANCO RULE-People Happy and Have Plenty...
...Even if Columnist Winchell's figure had been true, which it apparently was not, 4.2, * while far short of the great variety shows' ratings which soar into the 30s, is about equal to the 4 average of the highly popular Philadelphia Orchestra. But NBC officials, smoked out, declared that Toscanini's rating was 9.1, which is on a par with the score of the New York Philharmonic's Sunday afternoon broadcasts...