Word: colyumist
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Into the Hollywood Legion Stadium to see some boxing matches stepped jaunty, garrulous Walter Winchell, gossip colyumist for the New York Mirror. Up from his ringside seat jumped Mammy-Singer Al Jolson, whose big-eyed wife, Ruby Keeler, had started to whimper at the sight of Winchell. Smack went Jolson's fist and down went Winchell. Smack went Jolson's other fist and down went Wrinchell again. After other spectators, including a woman who wielded her sharp-heeled slipper, had driven Jolson off, word buzzed through the excited audience that Ruby Keeler was upset because Winchell...
...many cucumbers, as he did a year ago. the U. S. team had a coach: famed Mercer Beasley, who will be tennis instructor at Princeton next fall and whose able book, How to Play Tennis, was published by Doubleday Doran last week. Comment on Beasley's behavior by Colyumist W. O. McGeehan: "All through the match between Vines and Austin he sat like Madame de Farge at her knitting, only . . . instead of the knitting needles of the French Revolution, he used a pencil and a tablet, making notes. He will present the notes to the United States Lawn Tennis...
During the War Stod King served in the Washington National Guard. When he was discharged he went back to the Spokane Spokesman-Review, the newspaper on which he worked before he went East to Yale. The Spokesman mourned deeply last week the passing of its best colyumist, a man who, News Editor Malcolm Glendenning said, had never once turned in a poor piece of copy, who knew as much about sport as he did about turning out neat comic rhymes for his daily "Facetious Fragments." Yalemen who were in college just before the War remembered Stod King's brilliant...
Died. Hugo Brisbane, 15, son of Colyumist Arthur Brisbane ("Today") of the Hearstpapers; of an embolism following a minor operation; in Manhattan...
...about the House of Morgan and its Friends in high places. Apropos the 1929 letter of Morgan Partner William Ewing by which William H. Woodin, now Secretary of the Treasury, was let in on the ground floor of Alleghany Corp. stock because ''We were thinking of you," Colyumist Broun chortled: "I think that Mr. Woodin ought to go back to his job of composing ballads. ... If the waltz king of the American Car & Foundry Co. wants something in a nice hot fox trot, how about 'My Little Morganatic Miss...