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...tried to enrich my writing and commentary with a philosophical and historical perspective," Stone said, insisting he always wanted his weekly to contain more than "Just gossip...
Only a year ago, the Washington gossip was that Thomas Reed, the Special Assistant to the President, would go on to bigger things. A former Secretary of the Air Force under Presidents Ford and Carter, a longtime associate of President Reagan's and a consultant to the National Security Council staff, Reed was thought to have had a good shot at a number of high-level openings down the road. No longer. Reed's troubles go back to 1981, when he made an investment of $3,000 in call options on shares of stock in the Amax mining...
Creeping about in the undergrowth is not the style of the Daily Mail's influential gossip columnist Nigel Dempster. He claims that he attends many parties that royals do, and when he is leaving he sees Whitaker in the bushes. He insists that he is not a royal-watcher but a "social policeman." About the time that Whitaker diagnosed anorexia, however, Dempster indulged himself with a lofty and fairly encyclopedic denunciation of Diana's faults. It was he who said that she was spoiled, fiendish and a monster, that she was spending too much money on clothes shaming the nation...
Before publishing your story you gave me an opportunity to comment, but I decided to continue my longstanding policy of not speaking to the press about these events. However, Nathan's article presents much rumor, gossip and allegation as fact. As a result of being mentioned in TIME, his piece has received widespread circulation in the U.S. and throughout the world. Thus I have come to the conclusion that my denial of CIA participation in any act of mine should be equally widely published...
DIED. Harriet Parsons, 76, petite hard-headed producer who made six movies for RKO between 1945 and 1955, including Clash by Night and I Remember Mama; of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif. The daughter of powerful Gossip Columnist Louella Parsons, Harriet went from writing for fan magazines and filming shorts to producing Hollywood films, one of a handful of women to do so. Her job often required, she said, "the combined qualities of Solomon and Simon Legree...