The Press: Model Copy

Ed Sullivan writes a Hollywood gossip column for the New York Daily News, syndicates it to some 50 other papers. Never celebrated as a reporter, he got his start as a sports columnist for Macfadden's late Manhattan tabloid Graphic. One day last fortnight Ed Sullivan set out across continent with a troupe of actors (including Horror Man Bela Lugosi) to do a vaudeville turn. In St. Louis he dropped off between trains, decided to pay a goodwill call on his St. Louis paper.

Wrote Newsman Sullivan from Terre Haute two days after: "I visited...

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