Word: walker
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...GEORGE WALKER The Bronx...
...Danton Walker, Broadway columnist for the New York Daily News, was neither the first nor the best example of that vaguely journalistic genus, the gossipmonger. In his 23 years of reporting flack-work, rumor, trivia and hearsay, his wit was generally perishable, his essays at political thinking were often bottom drawer (Cuban Dictator Fulgencio Batista was "the most dynamic and forceful personality I ever interviewed"), his prophecies of events were mercifully forgotten, his items were usually inconsequential, though short enough to be mildly habit forming, like peanuts. But he was less given than his predecessors to malice in print...
...York Times obituary writer noted stuffily last week, this review "seemingly convinced" his publisher that they had a real property on their hands. Launched as a columnist, Walker wrote with an obvious ban vivant zest that to Daily News readers made substance unnecessary. "I've been accused of being a gourmet," Walker boasted. "Nuts, all I can say is that I have tried everything put before me and never suffered any violent ill effects." A bachelor, he liked ballroom dancing and escaped the heavy bores on his rounds by fleeing to the dance floor. "When...
...Much Cha-Cha-Cha." Early this month, panting a little but seemingly insouciant as ever, Danton Walker dictated a column from his hospital bed in Hyannis, Mass. It was characteristically name-dropping even when the subject was himself. "Too much cha-cha-cha can be dangerous," he wrote, "especially if you try it the Danton Walker way. It resulted in a mild coronary for me brought on by cha-cha-cha lessons which began in West Berlin, starting with a delightful Italian movie doll named Giorgia Moll, continued in Rio de Janeiro with Mrs. Juscelino Kubitschek, First Lady of Brazil...
...last column, his last fling around the floor. Last week, ten days after suffering the attack, Broadway Columnist Danton Walker died...