Word: gossipeer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...indefinitely anything that is not important." In his opus, Cooper recalls almost everything unimportant that happened in Sironia, a pseudonymous Texas town (Cooper has always lived in Waco) in the first 20 years of the century. He tells the important things too; but with the gift of the true gossip for pure indiscrimination he can tell about a rape in the same cozy tone he uses to describe a family evening at home -and, in Sironia, one seems to have been as common as the other...
...wear shiny jewelry when before the TV cameras, she advises; it reflects light glaringly. When properly approached, it is socially permissible to endorse foods, liquors, cosmetics and cars, but such intimate products as tooth paste, depilatories and underwear are obviously unsuitable. What to do about gossip columnists? "A well-known individual," Miss Vanderbilt seems to feel, will just have to "endure" them-unless a "damaging" story warrants a libel suit. Apparently aware that some of her readers are not trying to avoid columnists, she blandly adds: "The debutante who . . . enters a nightclub with a gazelle on a leash...
Papa Noris, anxious to still village gossip about both him and his daughter in order to clinch a pending election, offers to marry Tamara. In the glib space of a few pages, Tamara blossoms into a dutiful bride and Hélene into a mature young woman who sees through the illusion by which she has been enslaved...
...Gossip is tireless about Stalin's health and the fantastic precautions he takes to preserve it. The latest, from the Swiss weekly Weltwoche, describes a clinic in the Caucasus, where a group of 40 carefully selected Georgians of Stalin's age and general physical make-up are forced to lead a life precisely patterned on his, eating the same meals, keeping the same hours, while a corps of doctors observe and test them with life-prolonging serums. Weltwoche does not explain how the worries of ttie most feared and powerful man on earth are simulated, or whether Stalin...
Walter Winchell (Sun. 6:45 p.m., ABC). Manhattan's No. 1 gossip begins his first TV series...