Word: gossiper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Adolf Hitler was the subject of some nasty gossip last week. Burbled the wife of Nazi Secretary of State Otto Meissner (now awaiting trial at Dachau): the Fuhrer had a son, Helmuth, by Frau Goebbels, and "I am the only survivor who knows it." It all began, she confided to newshawks, in the summer of 1934. "At that time Frau Goebbels was on bad terms with her husband.. . . Hitler visited her so regularly in her apartment that their relations were obvious. . . . They seemed lost in each other's company, especially when love songs were played. Later, their relations...
...Jolson Story is the first production job of an amateur: bantam-sized (5 ft. 2 in.) Hollywood gossip columnist Sidney Skolsky. While insisting that journalism is his profession, Skolsky has dabbled in picture-making for years, occasionally walking through bit parts as a gag or tossing out a helpful suggestion to studio executives...
Margaret Truman, after a Missouri summer, was getting ready for some profile flashing in nosy Washington. Capital gossip had it that the President's daughter had been going in for some fancy nose remodeling. No such thing, said the White House...
...Bess Wilson, these spare-time journalists are no Helen Hokinson characters. "These women are hard workers . . . and they're alive to the forces around them." But she did wish that they'd learn to spell, stick to facts instead of gossip, and get their copy in while it was news...
...Allen will fight Hearst in the open when they air their radio plans in an Oct. 1 hearing. Whatever the outcome, FCC will suffer. If Hearst wins, the Blue Book threat will lose its starch; if Hearst loses, FCC will be accused of knuckling under to Washington's gossip boys. Said Pearson's & Allen's attorney: there is so much interest already in the hearing that "they're selling tickets...