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...admired for more than 30 years and whom she accompanied on his 1957 tour of Africa. Stevenson, she wrote, is "the best possible candidate" by virtue of "his experience, his wisdom and his ability." Last week Guggenheim replied in a signed announcement opposite Newsday's editorial page. Republican Richard Nixon, he wrote, "should be nominated by the Republican Party and elected by all of the people...
...town daily until 1895, when it was bought by Harry H. Tammen, a onetime Denver bartender, and Frederick G. Bonfils, who reaped an $800,000 fortune by fleecing Kansans in a lottery, the Denver Post bloomed under their cultivation into the wildest flower in the Wild West. Its front page was a crazy quilt of blaring headlines, many in red ink, and along the order of DOES IT HURT TO BE BORN...
Despite an impressive contingent of crack newsmen-among them Damon Runyon, Courtney Ryley Cooper, Burns Mantle and Gene Fowler-the paper read like a circus flyer. For an editorial page, Tammen and Bonfils substituted invective, raked up so much scandal-a good deal of it true-that they kept a loaded shotgun in their office to discourage reader complaints. As the Post grew in power and prosperity, its proprietors branched into other fields; the Post became the first and last U.S. daily ever to own a circus (Sells-Floto), run a burlesque house and sell coal...
...raconteur of such Parsons-Hopper-Lyons-Kilgallen glimpses of the jet set at play is not named Louella, Hedda, Leonard or Dorothy. He is Germany's Wiener-Schnitzel Winchell, Gossipist Hannes Obermaier, who writes a daily Page 2 column for Munich's tabloid Abendzeitung called "Hunter Jots Down''-the name Hunter coming from a brand of Dutch cigarettes that Obermaier likes. In the eight years that Obermaier has chronicled high life in Europe's low places, Abendzeitung's circulation has shot from 17,000 to 105,000. His bosses give him much...
Gutter Ball. In Spencerville, Ohio, after bowling an exasperating 109 game, Paul Page marched out of the Lyn Lee Lanes, lofted his ball into the Miami and Erie Canal...