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...Hampshire was made a standing offer by William Randolph Hearst to become an editorial writer at $50,000 a year. Not to the Hearst organization, but to Publisher Frank Knox of the Chicago Daily News, onetime Hearstling, went George Moses. Last week, from Washington, he began writing a colyum on national and international events for the News...
Excerpts from first colyum for Col. Knox...
Irvin S. Cobb paid for his memorable appendectomy many times over with the book he wrote about it: Speaking of Operations. Ring Lardner discovered last spring that the tedium of a sickbed could be profitably relieved by writing a radio colyum for the New Yorker, datelined "No Visitors, N. Y." Last week U. S. readers of the London Evening Standard perceived how an anonymous staffwriter aided by square-faced David Low, peerless New Zealand-born caricaturist, had made amusing copy out of Britain's influenza epidemic. The writer was personified as "the celebrated journalist Mr. Terry," a character assumed...
...been music critic, military expert, war correspondent, editorial writer & foreign correspondent (Philadelphia Public Ledgers), political correspondent (L'Echo de Paris), associate editor (Collier's), managing editor (The Dial). contributing editor (The New Republic), dramatic critic (Manhattan Evening Graphic). At present he writes a Hearst-syndicated colyum. His adaptation of Aristophanes' Lysistrata was a 1930 box-office success. Harvard-man (1914), married (to Alice Walhams Hall), with two children, he lives quietly in Manhattan, shuns publicity, misses few tricks...
Aging Arthur Brisbane, visiting the California demesne of his employer, Publisher William Randolph Hearst, last week devoted space in his "Today" colyum to describing the animals in Mr. Hearst's private zoo. Then he went on: "The collection of human beings here is also interesting. Charlie Chaplin flew up yesterday. One of the Marx Brothers, named Harpo, has just arrived, in a hired plane. He brought his harp and played on the way up. Charles MacArthur, who wrote The Front Page and married Helen Hayes, two remarkable accomplishments for one so young, flew up with Marx and warned...