Sic transit …

… The First Talking Head - WSJ. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

In his heyday—the 1950s and early ’60s—Harry Golden had two books simultaneously on the New York Times best-seller list, was on the outer rim of the inner John F. Kennedy circle, and was mentioned in Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter From Birmingham Jail.” Golden was invited to speak at universities, performed at the Concord Hotel in the Catskills, and was offered a reserved seat at Robert Kennedy’s funeral. He appeared on the television talk shows of Dave Garroway, Steve Allen, Jack Paar and Johnny Carson; also on Edward R. Murrow. In 1961, Life magazine sent him to Jerusalem to cover the Adolf Eichmann trial. He was a celebrity in journalist’s clothes.