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Part of being a good reporter, wrote Theo Wilson in 1996, is to be anonymous.

To stay out of the story so that you can better watch and

study and listen to the principles. She couldn't do that, mostly because people

wouldn't let her. She'd walk into a trial and the prosecutor would ask for her autograph for his wife,

or the judge would send out greetings.

Wilson was writing about his former friend and one of the most remarkable journalists of the 20th century, Dorothy Kilgallen.

Remarkable for the reason that Kilgullen did not merely restrict herself to journalism, but also to the life of a celebrity.

Kilgullen had begun her journalistic assent to stardom in 1936, when after joining the New York

evening journal at the age of 21, she participated in a real life race around the world

with two other reporters, both male, using only transportation available to the general public.

Kilgallin came second and described the journey in her book, Girl Around the World,

which inspired the following years movie

Fly Away Baby, starring Glenda Farrell.

Recognizing a rising journalistic star, she was offered a regular column on the newly formed New York Journal American by the Hearst Corporation, entitled, Voice of Broadway, in which Kilgala not only talked about business news, New York

affairs and celebrity gossip but politics and organized crime. The column was

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