In his column, which was called "It Happened Last Night", he followed the self-imposed rule "never to print any gossip that would break up a marriage".
His nightly journeys by taxi and telephone through the parties, cabarets and clubs of New York's entertainment world had crammed his notebooks with enough information, anecdotes and jocular observations to fill 11,424 columns.
In The Fox Hunt (1956), when Lucy and Ricky are visiting in London, she attempts to impress royalty after being introduced to a baron. She casually mentions she knows "the Earl of Wilson," as a nod to their newspaper friend.
Earned a journalism degree from Ohio State University and worked for newspapers in Columbus and Akron and for the International News Service before moving to "The Washington Post".