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...Senate can be obtained for $200,000. U.S. Senators, as a rule, can be had for much less. Moral indignation, that main current of contemporary American thought, seems nonexistent. Yet Vidal's travelogue through this dark time is as funny as it is unsettling. With malicious wit, irresistible gossip and sturdy research, he turns 1876 into an ornate 200th birthday card inscribed with a poison...
...famous and among the first into the era of postwar fiction. Vidal did not attend college; instead, he joined the class of Norman Mailer, Irwin Shaw, James Jones, John Hersey. An Alabama gamin named Truman Capote materialized, and he and Vidal were soon nightclubbing together and meeting for weekly gossip lunches amid the palms of New York's Plaza Hotel. "It was deadly to get caught in the crossfire of their conversation," recalls one who was there. "They were a pair of gilded youths on top of the world...
...Antique gossip indicates that this crossed-star romance was an easy, affectionate sort of thing, enlivened by the lady's raucous sense of humor and stabilized by Gable's patient amusement with her flights. Both appear to have been unpretentious people, genuinely surprised-and moved-by their luck at finding one another in the marital climate of haute Hollywood in the late '30s. Others, alternately freezing and frying in that weird weather, were apparently much comforted by the example Gable and Lombard...
...machine technician and then for its Criminal Investigation Division, led to his interrogation and imprisonment for Lao Gai during the Census of Foreigners in 1954. At the time of his arrest he was working as a cultural attache for a Western embassy (unnamed), reporting on rationing measures, worker's gossip, and so on. In this last position his prying, even if routine, rankled the new government and, while his function in the CID wasn't especially incriminating, he knew of and had gone along with activities of which the Communists disapproved...
Everyone loves gossip, and Harvard University is no exception. For the last two years the focus of much of the campus gossip has been Doris H. Kearns, associate professor of Government and former White House Fellow. Harvard professors and students have joined national magazines and newspapers in speculation--What was her relationship with LBJ? Is she marrying Richard Goodwin? What is going on with her Basic Books contract...