Word: gossiped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...office announced that U.A. had been sold. The buyer was a syndicate "of Eastern investors," whose front man was Paul V. McNutt, ex-U.S. High Commissioner to the Philippines and former chairman of the War Manpower Commission. Neither McNutt, Mary or Charlie would disclose the terms, but Hollywood gossip was that McNutt & friends: 1) had agreed to pay some $5,000,000 for the company; 2) hoped to produce films on their own; and 3) were dickering to hire independent Producer Stanley (The Men) Kramer (see CINEMA) to boss production...
Quick with a Hook. In short, The Little Princesses has only slightly more human interest and gossip value than a Court Circular. But it is written in a much more affable style, and since the book concerns one of the world's best-loved families it is almost certain to become a bestseller. The best of the book is a small body of anecdote that Author Crawford retails with all the backstairs skill of an experienced court attendant. Items...
...Devil's Children. The colonists had plenty else to concern them besides the Indians. In New England, especially, the Devil made trouble. "Exhibiting himself ordinarily as a small black man," says that great theological gossip, Cotton Mather, the fiend "decoyed a fearful knot of proud, froward, ignorant, envious, and malicious creatures to lift themselves in his horrid service...
...gossip column report that "Father Divine's white wife has had enough" got an immediate, indignant denial. Said blonde Mother Divine: "An ugly, ridiculous statement . . . Winchell and those of his type like to print erroneous statements to undermine the faith and belief people have in Father Divine...
...leaves him a newly commissioned colonel of 39 in the ominous year 1861. Convinced that "biography is not instruction or teaching-but is just a story that happens to be true," Lewis has taken much of the stiffness and the stuffiness out of the Grant legend, and relegated the gossip about his minor vices to their proper place...