Word: gossiper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year) and his big premium business had melted away. This left him enough paper to expand. While most publishers were curtailing their output of titles, Ben Zevin expanded, picking up best-sellers as other publishers were forced to drop them. One bit of trade gossip: World published Gypsy Rose Lee's G-String Murder on paper alloted for Bibles. This year World sold 13,000,000 volumes, grossed $6,350,000 to become one of the nation's biggest reprint houses...
...This one takes you right into a Baptist seminary, shows you the callowness, the shallowness, the dingy personal problems of the young men who will become fishers of souls. It takes you into a small Baptist church in a small Missouri town, shows you the political shenanigans, the scandalous gossip, the social going-over every minister and his wife have to take. Even I learned something from...
General Marshall had a long series of bad moments after U.S. flyers, showing a suspicious amount of foresight, shot down Admiral Yamamoto's plane at Bougainville in 1943. Gossip rustled through the Pacific and into Washington cocktail parties; General Marshall got to the point of asking the FBI to find an officer "who could be made an example of." (The FBI, fearful of looking like a Gestapo, refused.) Once a decoder was caught in Boston trying to sell the secret. Once, well-meaning agents of the Office of Strategic Services ransacked the Japanese Embassy in Lisbon, whereupon the Japs...
Hedda Hopper, high-styled Hollywood gossip, wife No. 5 of marrying DeWolf Hopper's six, hopped to Manhattan for the opera opening, appeared in a chinchilla coat which she boasted was the only one in Hollywood-except for 88-year-old Lady (Elsie de Wolfe) Mendl's. She declared she would never marry again, explained why: "What I attract is too young. What I should attract...
...year), Sam Rosenman had begun building the New Deal brain trust for his good friend Franklin Roosevelt. Later, he had had a hand in writing many an FDR speech. A shadowy figure, he had moved quietly in & out of Washington, never staying long enough for political gossip to get a good start...