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...several months now, the elegant salons of Paris' 16th arrondissement have been buzzing with gossip about the private life of French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. Ever since the Paris daily Le Monde noted his penchant for mysterious nighttime disappearances from the Elysée Palace (TIME, Dec. 9), a favorite Paris parlor game has been to guess where, how arid with whom the President spends his evenings. Palace officials insist that Giscard's nocturnal wanderings involve nothing more adventurous than dropping in on old friends for a drink and a chat. They contend that...
Salon Savants. If, as his critics maintain, the gossip implies that the President may be a bit too indolent in office, it also suggests that he is indefatigable outside it. Since the family has remained at Giscard's old house at 11 Rue de Benouville, while he sleeps most nights at the Elysée Palace, rumors have inevitably floated about presidential liaisons. Salon savants have linked him with at least one actress, one photographer and two princesses (one domestic, one foreign). Italian Princess Domietta Hercolani and French Photographer Marie-Laure de Decker are the only two who have...
...guileless, enormously flattered by Mills' attentions, she is scarcely the stereotype of a designing woman. Indeed, she may not really comprehend the role she has played in the destruction of the man whom she still calls "Mr. Mills." What is certain is that what began as delicious Washington gossip has become a personal and professional tragedy in which no one in the capital can any longer find pleasurable titillation...
After citing a number of victims of U.S. agression, Chomsky said that "the Watergate discussion, in comparison to these things that occured during the four years of Nixon and Kissinger should be given about five lines in a gossip column...
Died. Edward Vincent Sullivan, 73, gossip columnist ("Little Old New York") for the New York Daily News and TV impresario nonpareil; of cancer of the esophagus; in Manhattan. Sullivan began as a sportswriter in the 1920s, moved to the Broadway celebrity beat in the 1930s and dabbled as master of ceremonies in vaudeville. In 1948, CBS tapped him as host of a variety show the network launched on a shoe-string budget; Sullivan hired Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis at $200 for his opener. Toast of the Town (later The Ed Sullivan Show) was gored by critics but cherished...