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Articles
Astor, David. “Ed Sullivan Was Also a Syndicated Writer.” Editor and Publisher, December 7, 1991.
Baer, Atra. “Sullivan Goes On and On …” New York Journal-American, June 24, 1963.
Barthel, Joan. “Sullivan
Survives.” New York Times Magazine, April, 1967.
Beck, Marilyn. “Rascals Cuts Ties with Establishment.” Milwaukee Journal, January 13, 1969.
Bender, Harold. “Ed Sullivan Recalls His Most Memorable TV Moment.” Pictorial Tview, February 18, 1962.
Bishop, Jim. “The Inside Story of Ed Sullivan.” New York Journal-American, March 17, 1957 (three-part series).
Crist, Judith. “His Ratings Sinking, Godfrey Drops 6 Singers, 3 Writers.” New York Herald-Tribune, April 16, 1955.
Crosby, John. “Last Big Laugh on Television May Be Sooner Than You Think.” New York Herald-Tribune. January 15, 1951.
Crosby, John. “Why? Why? Why?” New York Herald-Tribune. December 31, 1948.
Davis, Alvin. “The Ed Sullivan Story.” New York Post, March 26, 1956 (six-part series).
“Dawn Patrol Revue Heads Loew’s Bill.” New York Journal-American, November 2, 1935.
“DeMille is Off Sullivan Show.” The New York Times, March 8, 1953.
“Ed Sullivan and His Dawn Club Patrol Revue.” The Brooklyn Citizen [advertisement], May 3, 1934.
“Ed Sullivan Is Offering Revue at Loew’s State.” New York Herald-Tribune, July 7, 1934.
“Ed Sullivan M.C. at State.” New York Journal-American. August 24, 1942.
“Ed Sullivan [profile]” Saturday Evening Post, April 20, 1968.
“Ed Sullivan Revue at State.” New York Journal-American, October 31, 1936.
“Fearless Ed Sullivan.” TV Guide, June 19, 1953.
“Feud’s Fire Nips Barry Gray.” New York Post, March 12, 1952.
“Fiance Is with Her As Death Summons.” Chicago American, January 31, 1927.
Fricke, David. “It Was 40 Years Ago Today.” Rolling Stone, February 19, 2004.
Gardella, Kay. “CBS-TV Fighting Irishman Still in There Punching.” The Daily News, July 21, 1959.
“Girl Swimmer Dies, Planning to Marry.” New York Telegram, January 31, 1927.
“Goodbye, Ed Sullivan” Los Angeles Times, June 13, 1971.
“ ‘Graphic’ Just Blows, Makes No Statement.” Variety, July 12, 1932.
Grove, Gene. “A Sunday with Ed Sullivan.” Tuesday Magazine, March, 1966.
Harris, Eleanor. “That ‘No Talent’ Ed Sullivan.” Look, April 5, 1955.
Higgins, Robert. “The Bumbling Barnum of Sunday Night.” TV Guide, June 17, 1967.
Humphrey, Hal. “Second Generation Performs for Sullivan.” The Courier-Journal & Times, March 17, 1968.
Kilgallen, Dorothy. “Gossip in Gotham.” New York Journal-American, March 9, 1961.
Knickerbocker, Cholly. “Ed Sullivan Assailed for Permitting Paul Draper to Appear.” New York Journal-American, January 24, 1950.
Kempton, Murray. “The Reason Why.” New York Post, October 31, 1962.
Knox, C.M. “Why Ed Sullivan Needs Bodyguard.” Exposed, March, 1957.
Laguardia, Robert. “Ed Sullivan: Where, Why, and How Has He Gone.” Show, Summer, 1971.
Lardner, John. “A Happy Sullivan Day.” New Yorker [Exact date unknown; the mid 1960s].
MacKenzie, Bob. “The Really Big Shew.” Oakland Tribune, March 17, 1971.
Martin, Pete. “I Call on Ed Sullivan.” Saturday Evening Post, February 15, 1958.
“Mason Says He Will Sue Sullivan for $10 Million.” New York Journal-American, October 20, 1964.
“Mines of Music.” Radio Guide, May 12, 1934.
Mosby, Aline. “Ed Sullivanov Mumbles in Russian.” United Press International, August 4, 1959.
O’Brian, Jack. “Comedy Hour Anything But!” New York Journal-American, January 9, 1956.
O’Brian, Jack. “So What’s Ed Scowling About?” New York Journal-American, June 19, 1963.
“Opera Can’t Compete with Elvis, So Ed Sullivan Parts with the Met.” New York Post, February 28, 1957.
“Paar vs. Sullivan.” Life, March 24, 1961.
Pascal, John. “Ed ‘Laughs Off’ Paar, Stills Wants to Debate.” New York Journal-American, March 14, 1961.
Pegler, Westbrook. “About ‘Celebrities’ Who Laud Themselves.” New York Journal-American, July 16, 1947.
Plummer, Evans. “Plums and Prunes.” Radio Guide, May 5, 1934.
“Radio Reports.” Variety, February 2, 1932.
Rosen, George. “ ‘Vaudeo’ Comes of Age in Texaco Show.” Variety, June 16, 1948.
Schaap, Dick. “How to Be a TV Immortal for Seventeen Years.” New York Herald-Tribune, June 20, 1965.
“Skolsky Didn’t Know Radio Is That Tough.” Variety, July 5, 1932.
Sobol, Louis. “A Bit of This and That About People and Things.” New York Journal-American, January 24, 1941.
Stewart, Sam. “TV Drops old favorites.” Copley News Service, April 5, 1971.
“Sullivan Apologizes on Draper As Public Indignation Grows.” New York Journal-American, January 25, 1950.
“Sullivan at 25G for Vegas Unit.” Variety, [Exact date unknown], 1958.
“Sullivan Begins 2nd Week at State.” New York Journal-American, September 3, 1942.
Sullivan, Betty. “My Daddy, Ed Sullivan.” Family Circle, May, 1957.
“Sullivan Directs Show at Loew’s State.” New York Herald-Tribune, September 2, 1938.
Sullivan, Ed. “B’Way Column Writing As Exposed by Ed Sullivan, Who’s One of ’em.” Variety, January 16, 1932.
Sullivan, Ed. “Don’t Make Me Laugh: Ed Sullivan Tells His Colorful Life Story.” Ladies Home Journal, June, 1967.
Sullivan, Ed. “I’m the Luckiest.” This Week, August 16, 1969.
Sullivan, Ed. “My Story.” Colliers, September 14, 1956 (three-part series). Sullivan, Ed. “The Ed Sullivan Story.” New York Post, March 21, 1956.
Sullivan, Ed. “The Greatest Acts I’ve Ever Presented.” TV Guide, January 16, 1953.
“Sullivan Gives Air Guests Paid Notice.” Variety, January 12, 1932.
“Sullivan Narrator at Chanukah Fete.” New York Journal-American, November 14, 1958.
Sullivan, Sylvia. “I’m Married to the Great Stone Face.” Colliers, June 21, 1952.
Sylvester, Robert. “Wrong Way, Right Way, and Ed’s Way.” The Daily News, October 15, 1974.
“That Winchell-Sullivan Feud Growing Hotter.” New York Post, October 16, 1956.
“Tempest in a TV Pot.” Newsweek, March 20, 1961.
“The Toast of the Town” Time, June 26, 1951.
“Toast of the Town.” Variety, July 23, 1948.
Torre, Marie. “Ed Sullivan’s Opinions of TV and His Career.” New York Herald-Tribune, June 16, 1960.
Tosches, Nick. “Mr. Sunday Night.” Vanity Fair, July, 1997.
“Tremendous Empathy.” Newsweek, June 25, 1962.
“TV’s Amazing Ed Sullivan.” Time, Oct. 17, 1955.
Weiler, A.H. “Toast of Town in Pact with Fox.” The New York Times, March 4, 1953.
Wetzig, Mina. “Are You Jittery in Front of an Audience?” TV Notes, February 23, 1958.
Williams, Bob. “Sullivan Defends TV ‘Wasteland.’ ” New York Post, June 23, 1961.
Williams, Robert. “Sullivan Does About Face, Signs Elvis for 50G.” New York Post, July 13, 1956.
“Winchell vs. Sullivan.” TV Guide, October 14, 1952.
Endnotes
Prologue
1 “Oh … you mean Ed Sullivan.”: Harris, Michael David. Always on Sunday, Ed Sullivan: An Inside View. New York: Signet Books, 1968, p. 74.
2 “Dear Miss Van Home …”: Harris, p. 108.
3 “about the longest shot ever to have paid off in show business.”: Time, October 17, 1955.
4 “Public opinion …”: The New York Times, April 30, 1967.
5 “If he put his arm around you …”: Joan Rivers, interview with author.
6 “one of the fathers of rock ’n’ roll.”: The New York Times, September 13, 1965.
7 “One of the small but vexing questions …”: The New York Herald-Tribune, December 31, 1948.
8 “is unquestionably one …”: The N
ew York Times, September 13, 1965.
9 “Ed literally came close to slapping me …”: Vanity Fair, July, 1997.
10 “He was a whole different man offstage …”: Jack Carter, interview with author.
11 “like it was built-in,”: Bill Gallo, interview with author.
Chapter One
1 “My father was …”: Sullivan, Ed, editor. Christmas with Ed Sullivan. New York: McGraw-Hill Company, 1959, p. 10.
2 “if only Danny were here.”: Time, October 17, 1955.
3 “That’s where my brother Danny …”: Ed Sullivan, The Ed Sullivan Show, author interview with viewer.
4 “Oh children!”: Sullivan, p. 5.
5 “marveling at the people …”: The New York Journal-American, interview with Sullivan, March 19, 1957.
6 “He could be very kind …”: Bowles, Jerry. A Thousand Sundays: The Story of The Ed Sullivan Show. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1980, p. 81.
7 “As an athlete Ed …”: Harris, p. 50.
8 “real stinker.”: The New York Post, “The Ed Sullivan Story” by Ed Sullivan, March 19, 1956.
9 “You’ll find that all through your life,”: Ibid.
10 “When we went up into Connecticut …”: The New York Post, “The Ed Sullivan Story,” by Ed Sullivan, March 20, 1956.
11 “Luckily, he sat near Bill Cigliano …”; Colliers, September 14, 1956.
12 “the farther I got from home …”: Sullivan, p. 7.
13 “beat the hell out of me” and “It was the first time …”: Ladies Home Journal, by Ed Sullivan, June, 1967.
14 “He didn’t think of Port Chester fondly …”: Betty Sullivan Precht, interview with author.
15 “It is not yet decided …”: Port Chester Daily Item, 1919, exact date unknown.
16 “To maintain a position …”: Port Chester Daily Item, May 20, 1919.
17 “Port Chester High sure came back …”: Port Chester Daily Item, May 24, 1919.
18 “Port Chester displayed …”: Port Chester Daily Item, May 28, 1919.
19 “Sullivan drove in …”: Ibid.
20 “The slugging of Walker …”: Port Chester Daily Item, June 16, 1919.
Chapter Two
1 “He delivered his address …”: Port Chester Daily Item, June 26, 1919.
2 All headlines from Port Chester Daily Item, 1919.
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