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...report was half true. Woollcott was out, not for bawdry but for fatigue. His weekly radio broadcast, on top of his weekly New Yorker gossip articles, made a severe regimen for anyone as sedentary as Mr. Woollcott. Editor Harold Ross of The New Yorker proposed that he reduce his contributions to one a month, a thought which Mr. Woollcott could not endure. With him, it had to be all or nothing, and therefore nothing. He sent his resignation to Editor Ross, immediately hopped a train to Chicago to escape arguments. Well aware that the Woollcott page was among the most...
Alexander Wollcott's retirement from The New Yorker occurred at what many observers considered the peak of an extraordinary career. Once the ranking dramacritic of Manhattan, he had become a sort of glorified gossip columnist, a genteel Walter Winchell, and a peevish prophet of arts & letters. Few men can tell a story as entertainingly as Alexander Woollcott, and few would dare to be as malicious. As Cream of Wheat's "Town Crier" on the radio, he received more "high class" fan mail than any other single entertainer on the Columbia network. Sales of his book, While Rome Burns...
...American Newspaper Alliance. Proud is he of his early experiences as a Manhattan newshawk in the days of the Herman Rosenthal murder and the sinking of the Titanic. Yet he can, on occasion, forget his reporter's training long enough to put extra barbs on some paragraph of gossip, or to roll a log for one of his favorites. His humor has much of the feminine savagery of Dorothy Parker...
...Washington there was incredible gossip to the effect that behind the St. Louis indictments lay an Administration desire to oust Republican Will Hays as tsar of the industry and install a Democrat, possibly Postmaster General Farley...
...HANGMAN-John Stephen Strange-Crime Club ($2). Snow, gossip, kidnapping and murder in Baltimore. Through pink note paper and pink cheeks, the U. S. Post Office's Inspector Peel narrowly averts injustice...