BROWN, Eve

[324] pp.

E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc.

1947

First Edition

8 5/8″ x 6 1/4″

VG/ VG

Known to millions of Hearst newspaper readers as Cholly Knickerbocker, until his death in 1942, Maury Paul, society editor deluxe, was a fabulous man who made a career of recording the lives, misspent and otherwise, of New York society-and made them like it.

This biography on the Hearst Newspapers society columnist was written by his longtime assistant (Girl Friday in 1940s lingo). The caf society years made for interesting gossip columns, and there are many fun examples of that here. In one episode, Chollys feature on New York Hostesses was dying because hostesses were spending too much time at El Morocco and the Stork Club to contribute. Hence, Cholly cribbed recipes from his sworn enemy Elsie de Wolfes Recipes for Successful Dining and falsely attributed them to society women.