Word: earlied
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...answer is yes, or so says The Ear. Since its first appearance ten months ago in the Washington Star, this brassy if not classy daily oracle has become the most talked-about gossip column in a town that takes chitchat to heart. The Ear draws more phone calls and mail than any feature in the paper and is cited as a factor in the financially troubled Star's 6% circulation gain over a year ago.* "The wickedest thing to hit Washington since the last Administration," wrote one fan. "You're a dirty fun of a snitch," said another...
...Ear is getting a hearing outside of Washington, too. It now appears in 60 mostly medium-size dailies whose editors sense an appetite among readers for capital chatter. "New York's Great White Way is not so bright and glittering any more," says Bill Bondurant, managing editor of the Fort Lauderdale News. "The center of gossip today is Washington...
...worst kept secret in Washington is the identity of the supposedly anonymous authors of The Ear, Diana McLellan, 38, and Louise Lague, 28, both Star feature-story writers. Mc-Lellan, a perky Englishwoman who came to the U.S. 19 years ago, and Lague, a tall (5 ft. 8 in.), Rhode Island-born former reporter for the now defunct Washington Daily News, stay out of the limelight. Unlike other professional gossip collectors, they avoid parties and are rarely seen at fashionable restaurants. Their first trip together to swank Sans Souci got them, in Lague's phrase, a table in "Haute...
What Perks. The Ear does run, with unflagging good humor and no apparent qualm, numerous corrections. Says Washington Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee: "It's highly unprofessional and highly readable...
Bradlee should know, for nothing perks The Ear more than a chance to mention the O.P. (Other Paper, i.e., the Post), and the Fun Couple (Bradlee and his roommate-reporter, Sally Quinn). Bradlee has said he would fire any Post staffer caught whispering to The Ear ("I'd consider it a conflict of interest"), but O.P. items keep coming. The only success Bradlee has had in plugging The Ear came last winter, when Star Editor James Bellows, who dreamed up the feature and watches over it carefully, wanted to run a column to which the Post had rights. Bradlee...