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...speaker defending Jackie Kennedy's marriage to Aristotle Onassis was no gossip columnist or pundit-indeed, few society reporters were so disposed. He was Richard Cardinal Cushing, Archbishop of Boston, Prince of the Holy Roman Church and-as it turned out last week-foremost a friend in need...
Actress Danièle Gaubert was in Rome filming Camille 2,000, a futuristic version of Dumas fils' classic, and gossip columnists made the most of every rumor about her life and hard times with ex-husband, Rhadamés Trujillo. The trigger-tempered playboy son of the late Dominican dictator had held her a virtual prisoner of love at his European estates for almost five years-or so the stories went. Then the romantic legend began to falter, as Danièle missed her cue and told reporters: "It's true that my husband wanted...
...Double Helix, James Watson's personalized account of the discovery of the structure of DNA, the master molecule of life, had one important side effect. It shocked many scientists into the realization that they are public figures-and fair game for biographers, critics and even gossip columnists. Last week the point was driven home again by the publication of another gossipy book, Lawrence and Oppenheimer, in which Author Nuel Pharr Davis calls the roll of America's nuclear greats. He judges them not only as scientists, but also as human beings. Some do not fare too well...
...Homer starts off by dividing all bond salesmen into twelve species. They include Legatus Caelestis, or Messenger from Mount Olympus, who "brings you eternal verities from on high (his firm's research department) "; Garrulus Defatigare, or Sophisticate, who bears "a bored air of nonchalance and yards of bond gossip"; and Hospes Hospitalis, or Jovial Host, who "will be anxious to have you share his innocent amusements. Handle this one with unusual caution...
Davies, who for two years wrote the "Atticus" feature in the London Sunday Times, is the perfect prototype of the modern hagiographer: a onetime gossip columnist with a novelist's background (Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush). With the help of his subjects, who are getting a cut of the royalties, he offers the largest selection of spicy morsels yet compiled on the Beatles. For example, here is Paul McCartney on sex: "I got it for the first time at 15. I suppose that was a bit early. I was about the first in my class." Or Ringo...