Harrison Carroll industry for 43 years, writing his last column in 1969, after which he retired. His column was syndicated by the Central Press Association to 48 newspapers. He had feuds with the leading gossip columnists of the day, including Hedda Hopper, Louella Parsons and his fellow Herald columnist Jimmy Starr: all of them appeared as themselves in the 1947 crime movie "The Corpse Came C.O.D.". Beginning in 1967 until he retired, Carroll's main place of business was the private, members-only Beverly Hills discotheque-"cum"-restaurant Daisy, a hang-out for the younger, hipper stars like Paul Newman when he was in L.A. He created
Alice in Wonderland or What's a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This? the "hard-boiled" criminal egg, Humphrey Dumpty. And Hedda Hatter (a new character who pops into the Mad Tea Party at the behest of the Mad Hatter) is voiced by gossip columnist Hedda Hopper. It would be her last "public appearance"; she died two months prior to the film's initial broadcast. In the book, Alice goes through a looking glass; in this version, she goes through a TV screen. In the book, Alice has a cat named Dinah, while in this version, she has a dog named Fluff. Rexall and Coca-Cola sponsored this feature, and characters from the movie appeared in