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...words, of course, were not the Times's own; they were quoted from the gossip-colyum of Walter Winchell in the tabloid Daily Mirror. Directly and indirectly they made Walter Winchell news last week: directly because his colyum was on the street only six hours before Gangster Vincent Coll was machine-gunned to death in a telephone booth, and Colyumist Winchell (who had been frightened into getting a police bodyguard) was summoned before the Grand Jury to explain his advance information; indirectly because they precipitated a new climax in a long-standing squabble between Winchell and Publisher Albert John...
...contract. The instant that should occur Winchell would skip three blocks downtown to Joseph Medill Patterson's big little Daily News (completing his ascension of the scale of Manhattan tabloids). According to Newsdom, weekly of unemployed newspapermen, the News offered Winchell $1,000 a week for a Sunday colyum alone...
...Waldemar Kaempffert's science colyum in the New York Times it was revealed that the late Sir Henry Segrave, racer of motorboats and automobiles, solved the problem of buoyancy in his boats by lining the hull with thousands of ping-pong balls...
...Sports.'' He blamed the university's poor snowing in sports partially on what he called Princeton's "smoothie complex." After Princeton's dejected showing against Cornell four weeks ago, Lawrence Perry, an old Princetonian who writes a national!}' syndicated sports colyum called For The Game's Sake, sadly took up Chairman Kennedy's lament. Lamented...
There was a purported interview with Miss Davies' great & good friend Pub lisher Hearst, relating that he, too, had just arrived in Los Angeles, with the words: "I'm just CWAZY about Europe." On the back page were eight more little pictures of Miss Davies, and a lengthy colyum of studio gossip by "Prunella Parsnips," parodying Louella Parsons, Hearst reporter of Hollywood chit-chat...