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Word: gossipeer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unlikely as it seemed, the personable Ago Khan, 22, was fresh out of prospective begums, at least as far as anyone in the gossip mills knew. One of his brightest flames, Sylvia Casablancas, 19, daughter of Mexican Moneybags Fernando Casablancas, disclosed that summer had brought her a love match with handsome French Tennistar Jean-Noel Grinda, 22. That still left the Aga linked with pretty Tracy Pelissier, 18, stepdaughter of British Moviemaker Sir Carol Reed, and the Aga's house guest in Cannes for a spell last summer. Tracy's mother spiked any thoughts of serious romance most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 5, 1959 | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

...Negri opera featured a parade of animals, representing various habitues of the gossip columns, marching onstage to themes from famous composers. A black cat named Barbara (obviously Barbara Hutton) kept hooking men with a fishing rod into a diamond-studded coach to snatches of Beethoven's Pathétique. Two gentle poodles (those feuding balletomanes, the Marquis de Cuevas and Choreographer Serge Li far) fought a duel with ostrich feathers to the music of Claire de Lune. Minerva the black panther (Callas) appeared in a red wig to music from Weber's Der Freischutz and devoured a chesty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Back to Nature | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

...drive-it Volkswagen, the two demonstrated the close relationship between love and Haiti, thrill-riding the island's mountain curves, dancing to voodoo drums at the nightclub Bacoulou. By week's end, when the lady and Brando had been off together for six days, U.S. gossip mills still knew nothing about it. But an understudy was filling the star role in Broadway's The World of Suzie Wong, and the show's agent said that lush, Sino-French France Nuyen was vacationing "on the coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 28, 1959 | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...gossip popped corks and bubbled through Paris. Long-legged Actress-Model Suzy Parker, 26, was seeing a lot of Wall Street's impeccable, rich, yo-year-old Widower Paul V. Shields (brother and investment banking partner of Champion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 21, 1959 | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...days later, at Le Touquet, he lost heavily again, this time ironically playing beside an American businessman on vacation-Ralph Thomas Reed, president of American Express Co. Reed was not the only one who wondered at the recklessness of the mysteriously affluent Italian. A Parisian gossip columnist wrote an item about "a young Italian, Mr. Grassi, who never bets less than one million francs at a time at roulette," and makes the casino manager "shudder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Cashier & the Con Man | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

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