Word: gossipeer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Newspapers have thrown their pages wide open to the news, gossip and pictures of TV that flood in from wire services and network publicity mills. CBS alone churns out 100,000 stories a year for 1,200 publications, and the network even plants finished feature articles in dailies and some magazines. In addition to Sunday supplements-often modeled on TV Guide, the most successful magazine (circ. 5,315,659) started since the war-most newspapers each day feature syndicated TV critics and program previews, give free rein to scores of local' TV columnists. Though many newspapers balked for years...
...Babble-by-the-Bay." What saves his column from being a paean in the neck is Caen's fresh, irreverent eye and his breezy, gag-filled style. Unlike most gossip columnists, Herb Caen seldom rumples through dirty linen or tries to scoop the city desk, but concentrates instead on the San Franciscana he calls "sightems" or "babble-by-the-bay." Sample Caenanities: "Sign on a Volkswagen: Help Stamp Out Cads"; classified ad for a new home: "All-electric family kitchen, including natural-birth cabinets"; one matron to another matron: "No, she's not keeping the car any more...
Scheuer's service, which began four years ago, includes a bylined column on TV news and gossip, plus a sidedish of questions and answers about television. Three months ago he also blossomed out as a regular morning-after TV critic for New York's Daily Mirror (which runs his previews too). Thus in the case of a single TV show, he sometimes reads the script, attends the dress rehearsal, writes an advance report-and then reviews the finished product...
...white slavery, no boatloads of prostitutes, nothing." But before the Montesi affair could finally be left to history a new inquiry was in order: How satisfactory was a system of justice which forced Piero Piccioni to suffer three years of public humiliation and judicial jeopardy on the basis of gossip alone...
...Monroe: "A puppy, a kitten, a little chick!" Of Composer Cole Porter and Prince Aly Khan: "I don't know love, but for them I felt something more than friendship. Maybe it was really and truly love! If I were 40 years younger. . ." Then, snapping that she "hates gossip," Elsa bade arivederci to all and steamed up to Milan. There she fell into the trem ulous arms of volcanic Prima Donna Maria Meneghini Callas, last year's enemy, this year's bosom pal. Of Maria: "A fascinating creature . . . the greatest singing actress of our time...