SULLIVAN, ED. Broadway columnist who became a famed TV variety-show host; b. New York, New York, ; d. New York, New York; .
In the 1930s and 1940s Walter Winchell , Louis Sobol , Earl Wilson , Ed Sullivan , Mark Hellinger , and Damon Runyon were the men who ruled Broadway with their newspaper columns. Each of them could make or break careers and shows with a stroke of their pens. They were night people...