HERE will be no sweet smells of childhood here.
The little girl， to a great extent， will have to be
deduced from her adult fantasies and ac.tions.
Since that little girl lived for a very long time m
the late-blooming womaa--indeed， may have first emerged
then--the loss is unfortunate but not devastating.
The Kilgallens--Dorothy， her parents， her sister， and two
of her three children--were always extraordinarily chary of
public disclosure about family affairs. The columnist s messy
and still unsolved barbiturate death in 1965 turned their vig-
fiance into virtual obsession. Dorothy s father， Jim Kilgallen，
does not discuss his daughter even with friends of long
standing. He is ninety years old at the time of this writing.
He has been married to Mac Kilgallen for sixty-six of those
years and to the Hearst Organization for fifty-seven. In the
more recent tributes to Jim， Dorothy s name has not even
been mentioned.
When I first undertook KilgaUen in 1975， I wrote to
members of her family requesting interviews. The first rejec-
tion came from her only sister， Eleanor， who is a vice-
president of the Music Corporation of America.
Eleanor Kilgallen contended in her reply that her sister
was treated unkindly during her life and after her death by
her colleagues in journalism and that she has therefore
\"made it a policy never to discuss my sister in regard to any
publication.\" x
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