Word: gossiped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is lethargy, dependence on government handouts, press conferences, tips and gossip. Too many stories are written on the formula of "fact-plus-hunch-plus-opinion," notably by the pundits and columnists. Says Columnist Doris Fleeson, the capital's top woman reporter: "There's too little reporting, too much thumb-sucking in this town." Many correspondents are not in Washington to report; they are there to give their papers prestige, run errands for the publisher and lobby for his pet ideas, or to make routine checks...
Died. Dr. Harry Watson Martin, 61, since 1937 medical director of 20th Century-Fox Studios, husband of famed Hollywood Gossip Columnist Louella O. ("Lolly") Parsons in one of the film colony's happiest marriages; of an undiagnosed ailment contracted while on South Pacific duty in World War II with the Army Medical Corps; in Hollywood...
Darkness and Day, by Ivy Compton-Burnett. Further astonishing dilemmas of some of Compton-Burnett's genteel Eng lish characters; contrived mainly to let the characters gossip unconventionally about life, death and each other (TIME, March...
Then Winchell, who may have heard Wall Street gossip that the Securities & Exchange Commission was looking into the tips on N.P. & L., carefully denied that he had intended to tip anyone. In fact, he said, he had gotten his dope out of a broker's letter reporting that Walter Mack, onetime boss of Pepsi-Cola, "was trying to buy control of N.P. & L. to be used as distributor for a new soft drink firm...
...virus pneumonia, McCormick was away from his desk for prolonged periods, missed directors' meetings time & again, left the job-but not the authority-of running the company to McCaffrey. This was presumably the chief reason the directors clipped McCormick of his power. Another reason, according to union gossip: the directors objected to McCormick's too-liberal labor policies. (Even with them, Harvester has been plagued by strikes by its Redline C.I.O. United Farm Equipment and Metal Workers union...