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Gita Hall

Broadway columnist and radio personality Walter Winchell "discovered" her and got her into Hollywood movies.


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Anyox, British Columbia

Former Vancouver B.C. mayor Jack Volrich and the celebrated and much revered newspaper columnist Denny Boyd were both born in Anyox.

Arlo and Janis

According to Johnson's ex-wife, the newspaper columnist Rheta Grimsley Johnson, the lead characters are named after 1960s music icons Arlo Guthrie and Janis Joplin, and their son after Eugene McCarthy.

Bharat Gupt

Bharat Gupt, A retired Associate Professor in English, who taught at the College of Vocational Studies of the University of Delhi, is an Indian classicist, theatre theorist, sitar and surbahar player, musicologist, cultural analyst, and newspaper columnist.

Brisbane, California

Another story holds that it was named for newspaper columnist Arthur Brisbane.

Derek Tangye

The couple had given up sophisticated metropolitan lives, he as a newspaper columnist (during the war years he had worked for MI5) and she as a hotel PR executive, to live in isolation in a simple cottage surrounded by their beloved animals, which featured in nearly all his works.

Front Page Detective

Front Page Detective stars Edmund Lowe as David Chase, a newspaper columnist who helps police solve especially difficult mysteries.

George Crane

George W. Crane (1901–1995), psychologist, physician and syndicated newspaper columnist

Guavaween

Referencing this local history in the 1970s, local newspaper columnist Steve Otto planted the idea that if New York City is the "Big Apple", then Tampa must be the "Big Guava".

Henryville, Quebec

Henryville is the birthplace of Bat Masterson, a figure from the late 19th century U.S. wild west who became a New York City newspaper columnist during the early 20th century.

Hob Broun

He was the son of Heywood Hale Broun, the writer and broadcaster, and the grandson of Heywood Broun, the newspaper columnist.

Kenneth P. Johnson

Johnson hired Bill Keller, later executive editor of The New York Times, and newspaper columnist / political commentator Molly Ivins.

Lincoln by-election, 1973

Taverne, by contrast, organised only one meeting at which others spoke in his support, to which he invited the Bishop of Southwark Mervyn Stockwood and newspaper columnist Bernard Levin.

Matthew Wright

In February 2014, Wright hosted The Big Benefits Row: Live on Channel 5, a live debate about benefits with guests including Ken Livingstone, Annabel Giles and outspoken newspaper columnist Katie Hopkins.

Miss Ireland

Other notable winners include newspaper columnist Amanda Brunker and artist Nuala Holloway.

National College Television

The Walter Winchell File - featured crime stories from the 1950s TV show featuring the newspaper columnist.

O. P. Caylor

Oliver Perry Caylor (December 14, 1849 – October 19, 1897) was an American baseball newspaper columnist for The Cincinnati Enquirer and the Cincinnati Commercial before becoming one of the principal figures in the founding of the American Association in 1881 as well as the catalyst in the formation of the modern-day Cincinnati Reds.

Terry Major-Ball

Terry Major-Ball (2 July 1932 – 13 March 2007) was the elder brother of the former British Prime Minister Sir John Major, who during his brother's seven-year premiership had a brief career as a television and radio personality and newspaper columnist.

The Fall of Kelvin Walker: A Fable of the Sixties

Kelvin, freed from his strict Calvinist upbringing through discovering Nietzsche and 'the divine Ingersoll' in the library of his home town of Glaik, travels to swinging-sixties London to succeed as a television interviewer and newspaper columnist through nothing more than his aptitude for spin and a diabolical will to power, only to return, chastened, to Scotland and to God.

Woodruff, South Carolina

Wilson Casey, Trivia Guinness World Record holder, professional entertainer/speaker, nationally syndicated newspaper columnist in 500+ newspapers.