The Press: See Lennie Run

Among other things, Leonard Lyons: has loaned Sophia Loren his thermal underwear; buys his hats from Lock's of London; once beat Ernest Hemingway in a nose-measuring contest; purposely keeps his gold Bulova set eight minutes fast; dined alone with the Trumans their last night in the White House; can get away without tipping hat-check girls at New York's Inmost restaurants; introduced Two-Ton Tony Galento to Noel Coward and Marc Chagall to Richard Nixon. Leonard Lyons also is the last syndicated celebrity columnist who does all his own legwork.

Lyons has been legging it for...

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