Word: gossiper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...side, he earns $12,000 a year. He has traveled 350,000 miles to cover sports events. He has bombarded crooked sports promoters with thousands of yards of angry copy. His staffers resent the way he picks their brains for squibs for his column, taking their brightest gossip, but they have to admire the way the boss's column pulls in the fan mail...
...fortnight ago, peppery Laborite M.P. Tom Driberg let fall some pretty gossip in his Reynolds News column concerning a possible marriage between Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, who fought in the British Navy during the war, and who will take British citizenship in February. The Prince, said Driberg, is "intelligent and broadminded, fair and good-looking...
Peggy's story was worth one line in a gossip column until the News went to work on it: a stranger had planted kisses on Peggy Joyce's shoulder, proposed to her, and had been knocked cold by her escort, Comedian Joey Adams. Methodically, Legman David Charnay tracked down all hands, helped them say quotable things...
Meanwhile, people were inquiring solicitously about her health. "Naturally," she chirped in her column, "I felt rather flattered. . . . Then some kind friends enlightened me. . . . The gossip in Washington had been that 1) I was having a nervous breakdown, 2) I was dying of cancer and 3) I was about to get married! Somehow or other these things do not go very well together, and though I realize that my age might give rise to the first two, it certainly should preclude the last...
...There." These were the men who would pick the 1948 GOPresidential nominee, and the corners were full of gossip. Said Wisconsin's greying, amiable Tom Coleman: "Out there it's all Stassen and Dewey." Said Pennsylvania's G. Mason Owlett: "Regular Republicans are sore about those Western speeches Tom Dewey has made, and about his FEPC bill and things like that. I know they get pretty annoyed at some of Dewey's tactics." Said Michigan's Congressman Roy Woodruff: "Arthur Vandenberg is the kind of man the nation needs." Despite these differences, there was little...