Word: gossiper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Henry L. Stimson, able, ancient (77) Secretary of War, has planned to retire, may drop out soon after V-E day. His successor: question mark, so far as political gossip went. One gleam in Washington eyes: General George Catlett Marshall, with General Eisenhower the new Chief of Staff...
Gloria Vanderbilt di Cicco almost ran down her newest romance (according to the gossip columnists) when Maestro Leopold Stokowski stepped off a train at Truckee, Calif, into a Sierra Nevada snowstorm to help wait out her Reno divorce (due April 20). Meeting him in a secondhand Cadillac which she had just learned to drive, Gloria released the clutch as he crossed in front of the car. Only a cadenza-like leap saved him. Unruffled, the heiress drove him to her Lake Tahoe cabin while Manhattan friends & relatives dispatched frantic wires warning her not to marry the sixtyish conductor. Working...
...that they were going for a midwife. The MPs went along, just to be certain. They passed an entrance to a salt mine. Said one of the Hausfrauen: "That's where the bullion is hidden." MP ears perked up: How's that again? The woman repeated the gossip she had heard-Germany's gold had been salted away in that mine...
Beginning with a middle-aged matron and a bit of perplexing gossip, The Deep Mrs. Sykes ends by revealing the key dislocations in half a dozen lives. For all her inscrutable airs and vaunted "intuitions," Carrie Sykes (Catherine Willard) is just a stupid mischief-maker and egoist. When a woman in her cups spills the story that someone has been anonymously sending flowers to a neighborhood bride, Carrie suspects her own husband (Neil Hamilton), but lets the intoxicated woman-who goes haywire with jealousy-imagine it is hers. Actually it is Mrs. Sykes's married son-and gradually there...
Earnings range from 53? to 75? an hour. But many workers chose R.M.R. over other plants paying the same wages because "the gossip is better." High-school girls work next to soldiers on pass from Truax Field. Said one businessman: "Here's me so soft I get out of breath tying my own shoe laces. So I'm tossing 75-lb. boxes around. I look down the aisle, and there's one of my biggest, toughest employes working with an eye dropper...