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Your story about Hedda Hopper (TIME, May 25) gives the impression that my good friend John Chapman was dropped along with his column. Hedda Hopper's gossip may have triumphed over John Chapman's facts, but I happen to know that the New York Daily News is not dropping fact fancier John Chapman. I think Chapman readers would be pleased to know this fact...
Hedda's triumph was a triumph for gossip over news. On June 1 her column will supplant that of the New York Daily News's John Chapman. During his two years in Hollywood he stuck to news, not gossip, "tried to report on the making of movies and let it go at that." In the end, instead of letting the gossip go, Chapman's column...
...contrast with Chapman, who was his own legman and even typed his own copy, Hedda Hopper is real Hollywood. Not by accident has she risen in four years to challenge Lolly Parsons as chief outlet for Hollywood publicity. At 52, brown-haired, boisterous Hedda, who started life as plain Pennsylvania Quakeress Elda Furry, has been nearly 25 years in the movies (acting in over 100 pictures), was the fifth of the late Actor DeWolf Hopper's six wives, between times got "kicked around plenty" while staging fashion shows, coaching actors, selling real estate, even running for political office...
Carlston, C. E.; Champlin, G., Jr.; Chapman, J. E.; Collins, R. V.; Comer, J. D.; Crary, D. W.; Cullen, M. J., Jr.; Curlette...
Except for this wartime note, broadcast by big-league clubs, the 1942 baseball season opened this week much as usual. Some headliners were missing-notably Detroit's Hank Greenberg, Cleveland's Bob Feller, Washington's Cecil Travis, Philadelphia's Sam Chapman-and many another great ballplayer will follow them to war before the season ends. But draft or no draft, U.S. baseball fans were down with their perennial spring fever: trying to dope out how 16 big-league teams will finish in far-off October...