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...among her best reporting. An early supporter of Eugene McCarthy, she switched to Robert Kennedy and tried to unite her friends in the two factions. "Because of preference for one or another of two men whose platforms were not very different," she wrote, "friends no longer spoke to friends. Gossip about who had switched to whom politically was suddenly as juicy as who was having an affair with whom. But less tolerant...
...later wrote in Six Crises, "who had proved during the fund crisis that he was a cool man under pressure, had excellent judgment, and was one to whom I could speak with complete freedom without any concern that what I might say would find its way into the Washington gossip mill...
...Moscow, as in other world capitals, the rumor was that the Soviet leaders in the Politburo disagreed over the invasion of Czechoslovakia. "The main Moscow gossip," writes Hardy, "concerns the division over the Czechoslovak invasion. Three out of eleven are said to have opposed...
...married only once-briefly, to Actor John Emery-but took a legion of lovers and gleefully admitted: "I'm as pure as the driven slush." Columnists were forever sniping at her and getting blasted right back. "Are you ever mistaken for a man on the phone?" Broadway Gossip Earl Wilson asked her. "No," she rasped. "Are you?" Yet some of her best lines were about herself. "They used to shoot Shirley Temple through gauze. They ought to shoot me through linoleum," she said, while making up for a movie late in her career. Jezebel was the image she reveled...
...smallest dabbler in penny stocks and the manager of a billion-dollar mutual fund have at least one thing in common: both men are always alert for the inside tip, the informed gossip that can lead to quick profit. Not surprisingly, stockbrokers often pick up those tips ahead of their customers. And they usually pass the information along to large institutions whose trading pays big commissions. Last week, for just such misuse of inside information, the Securities and Exchange Commission severely penalized the world's biggest brokerage house, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith...