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Walter Winchell, New York Mirror colyumist, had just filed his "On Broadway" from the Miami Western Union office when a messenger dashed in with the news from the park. Winchell sprinted straight to the jail where he talked his way up to the cell block and eavesdropped on the sheriff's examination of Zangara. He wired the Mirror that night that Zangara "gave every indication of being crazy...
Died. Gloria, 9, eldest of Broadway Colyumist Walter Winchell's two daughters; of septic pneumonia, Christmas night; in Manhattan...
...expression. Month ago he plumped publicly for Roosevelt. But seldom had he been so sharp-spoken and the obvious deletions, plus the editor's note, started a rumor through Manhattan newsrooms that Walter Lippmann had been censored by Publisher & Mrs. Ogden Reid. Newsmen recalled the case of Colyumist Heywood Broun who was fired from the late World, when Lippmann was editor, for writing too bitterly about the Sacco-Vanzetti case...
...quit the newspaper business in 1919, wrote undistinguished magazine articles, moved to Europe, faded from the limelight. Yet when he died last week at 56 in France, "O'Malley of the Sun" was still news all over the country. Editorials mourned the passing of a Great Reporter. Colyumist F. P. Adams called him "the perfect and utter newspaperman...
Last week in College Humor's November issue Colyumist Brush poured her first cocktail. It contained a description of Mrs. Ely Culbertson's eyebrows-"so thin they give her face a kind of naked-and- unashamed look'': of Queen Mary at Wimbledon-"Her hats exactly suit her. They're magnificent on her" of the Summer Casino at Monte Carlo with its floating revue-stage anchored offshore. But smart Katharine Brush let a few drops of amazingly stale beer get into her cocktail. She wrote...