HEADLINE HAPPY by Florabel Muir 1950 - Mickey Cohen, Hollywood Memoirs

Description: HEADLINE HAPPY by Florabel Muir 1950 - Mickey Cohen, Hollywood Memoirs POB#57577 TITLE: Headline Happy AUTHOR: Florabel Muir PUBLISHER: New York: Henry Holt and Company DATE: 1950 EDITION: Stated First Edition DESCRIPTION: viii, 248 pages 21 cm. CONDITION NOTES: VERY GOOD/VERY GOOD. BINDING: Green quarter over black ..Florabel Muir (May 6, 1889 – April 27, 1970) was an American reporter, newspaper columnist and author. She became known for covering both Hollywood celebrities and underworld gangsters from the 1920s through the 1960s. Muir was born in the mining town of Rock Springs, Wyoming.[1] She attended the University of Washington in Seattle,[2] where she worked as the assistant editor of a student paper. After graduation, she briefly worked as a teacher before quitting to pursue a career as a newspaper reporter.[2] She began her professional newspaper career at The Salt Lake Herald after convincing the city editor to break with tradition and hire their first female reporter. Eventually, she moved to The Salt Lake Tribune where she was, again, their first female reporter. After brief stints at other papers, she went to work for the New York Daily News as a police reporter in 1927.[3] In 1934, she attempted to quit her newspaper career and become a fiction writer. However, she received and accepted an offer from the New York Post. Later, she and her husband left for Hollywood after receiving an offer to write screenplays at Fox. She is credited with one screenplay, Fighting Youth (1935), produced by Universal Studios. She went back to the Daily News as their Los Angeles correspondent when her former editor was having trouble covering a story in Hollywood.hile still writinWg for the Daily News, she also contributed stories to the Saturday Evening Post, The Los Angeles Mirror, and began writing a column, Just for Variety, for Daily Variety. She also hosted programs on radio and television (KFI). Muir was injured during a shooting attempt on the life of mobster Mickey Cohen at Sherry's restaurant on the Sunset Strip at 3:55 a.m. on July 20, 1949.[4] Cohen was struck in the shoulder. Three others were also wounded, including Cohen henchman "Neddie" Herbert, who later died from his wounds. Muir was struck in the backside when a slug ricocheted and left a large bruise. Her first instinct was to call the Mirror and get a photographer to the scene while her husband screamed for her to get down. She was also a confidant of Cohen and enlisted her husband to improve Cohen's reading and vocabulary skills. In 1950, she released her memoirs, Headline Happy..I learn the game -- The hundred-dollar baby -- I arrest a woman -- I meet legal death -- Lovin' Sam from Alabam' -- Self-made widow -- We give Ruth a send-off -- Penny Pincher -- The would-be papa -- Humpty Dumpty -- My headline-happy boss -- I try to quit the newspaper game -- Mary had a little diary -- Errol and the San Quentin quail -- It might have been me -- They calloed him Bugs -- Benny beats a murder rap -- Bullets catch up with Benny -- I get shot at -- Mickey leads a charmed life -- L . A. Vicecapades of 1949 -- I play in luck. Listing and template services provided by inkFrog

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