Word: gossiped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Friendly Persuasion." On the puritan side, Marcos closed down blue movies, strip shows and casinos, ordered police to seize slot machines. Newspapers that are allowed to resume publication will be forbidden to run editorials, society pages, gossip columns and lurid crime stories-a significant literary genre in a nation whose homicide rate is eight times that of the U.S. After a few nasty incidents, word came out of Malacanang Palace, Marcos' downtown Manila residence, that soldiers were not to cut off long hair or rip off miniskirts on sight. But Marcos' press secretary, Francisco Tatad, declared that ROTC...
...woman claimed to have shared a perverse relationship with Hitler: his niece, Geli Raubal. Their liaison caused much gossip and ended in Geli's mysterious death-perhaps by her own hand, perhaps by Hitler's. At least one other woman admitted to firsthand experience of Hitler's masochism, though in a less extreme form. The actress Rene Mueller told her director that on an evening when she had expected to have intercourse with Hitler, he instead threw himself on the floor, begged her to kick him and became excited when she finally complied. Rene later killed herself...
...Trade gossip had it that Times Managing Editor A.M. Rosenthal wanted the Sunday spot for his close friend Arthur Gelb, now metropolitan editor. But top management has in recent years preferred some separation between the daily and Sunday operations, and Rosenthal quickly hailed Frankel, 42, as "the best man for the job." An enterprising, thoughtful reporter who served as a foreign and White House correspondent before taking over the Washington bureau in 1968, Frankel was clearly marked for higher things. But the appointment of a political specialist to the primarily cultural Sunday job occasioned mild surprise...
...Gossip has it that Hemingway wrote the parody because he wanted to break his own contract with Boni & Liveright, Anderson's publisher, and go to Scribners. The firm sided with Anderson, and released Hemingway from his contract. Scribners got Torrents and the following year The Sun Also Rises. Anderson had the last word however. "It might have been humorous had Max Beerbohm condensed it to twelve pages," he said-and he was right. ·Martha Duffy
Married. Jimmie Fidler, 74, old-time Hollywood gossip commentator who began tattling his rapid-fire tales about the stars on radio in 1933; and Kathryn Davis, 57, a former secretary for Flying Tiger airlines; he for the sixth time, she for the second; in Reno...