Society Reporter

Smart-looking, Idaho-born Inez Callaway, known to the 3,000,000 readers of New York's tabloid Daily News as Nancy Randolph, last week traveled out to her alma mater at Columbia, Mo., to tell the conferees at Missouri University's Annual Journalism Week what it takes to be a Manhattan society reporter:

"One, a cast-iron constitution, one that can digest a season in Palm Beach, too many rich luncheons at 21 and the Colony, nights out at the Stork and El Morocco and the constant battering of debutantes who are determined to get into the movies via the front page.

"Two, a sense of humor. This is probably the most essential of all. A society reporter has to be able to laugh or she'll go nuts over the gyrations of society's lunatic fringe, its playboys, its glamor girls.

"And, three, a never-ending supply of clean white gloves. A clean white glove is the cachet of respectability in the Four Hundred. With a pair of clean white gloves, it's even possible to get past Psychic, the Perfect Butler who guards the threshold of J. P. Morgan on Murray Hill."

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