Lyons, Leonard { 1 images } Created 8 Apr 2022
Columnist, Leonard Lyons
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At a theatre opening with his wife and Mamie Eisenhower. Undated, 1950's
Leonard Lyons (born Leonard Sucher; 10 September 1906 - 7 October 1976) was an American newspaper columnist.
As a side activity, Leonard Sucher began a weekly column for the English-language page of the Jewish Daily Forward,[1] called "East of Broadway". He applied for a post as a Broadway columnist with the New York Post, and won the job. The editor of the Post gave Sucher an alternative last name, Lyons, for professional use, and thus he became "Leonard Lyons", an alliterative name reminiscent of Walter Winchell, another noted newspaper columnist of the day. Lyons' first column appeared May 20, 1934, under the banner of "The Lyons Den", a name devised by Walter Winchell. Lyons worked on "The Lyons Den" 6 days per week, producing as many columns per week, covering theater, movies, politics and art, a total of approximately 12,000 columns. Carl Sandburg once said of Lyons:
One print
At a theatre opening with his wife and Mamie Eisenhower. Undated, 1950's
Leonard Lyons (born Leonard Sucher; 10 September 1906 - 7 October 1976) was an American newspaper columnist.
As a side activity, Leonard Sucher began a weekly column for the English-language page of the Jewish Daily Forward,[1] called "East of Broadway". He applied for a post as a Broadway columnist with the New York Post, and won the job. The editor of the Post gave Sucher an alternative last name, Lyons, for professional use, and thus he became "Leonard Lyons", an alliterative name reminiscent of Walter Winchell, another noted newspaper columnist of the day. Lyons' first column appeared May 20, 1934, under the banner of "The Lyons Den", a name devised by Walter Winchell. Lyons worked on "The Lyons Den" 6 days per week, producing as many columns per week, covering theater, movies, politics and art, a total of approximately 12,000 columns. Carl Sandburg once said of Lyons:
![Columnist, Leonard Lyons<br />
One print<br />
At a theatre opening with his wife Sylvia and Mamie Eisenhower. Undated, 1950's<br />
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Another print Getty is holding onto.<br />
Leonard Lyons (born Leonard Sucher; 10 September 1906 - 7 October 1976) was an American newspaper columnist.<br />
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As a side activity, Leonard Sucher began a weekly column for the English-language page of the Jewish Daily Forward,[1] called "East of Broadway". He applied for a post as a Broadway columnist with the New York Post, and won the job. The editor of the Post gave Sucher an alternative last name, Lyons, for professional use, and thus he became "Leonard Lyons", an alliterative name reminiscent of Walter Winchell, another noted newspaper columnist of the day. Lyons' first column appeared May 20, 1934, under the banner of "The Lyons Den", a name devised by Walter Winchell. Lyons worked on "The Lyons Den" 6 days per week, producing as many columns per week, covering theater, movies, politics and art, a total of approximately 12,000 columns.](https://www.lawrencefried.com/img-get2/I0000b8lueBqNlDY/fit=188x188/fill=/g=G0000.1lYTvMb6E4/I0000b8lueBqNlDY.jpg)