Word: gossiper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Schram's warning closed the barn door a little late: rumors had already touched off a buying spree in low-priced auto shares. Through the grapevine from Detroit poured an endless cackle of tips and gossip as the auto industry jockeyed for postwar position. Biggest whoppers from the gossip mill last week concerned the future of the four Fisher brothers (TIME, Aug. 14). The dope had it that the Fishers were going to: 1) buy aging Henry Ford's titanic empire; or 2) buy control of three or four smaller companies and merge these into one automaker...
Burrs filled Down Beat with columns of musical gags, gossip, criticism and advice, spiced with pictures of shapely vocalists...
Plump, pink-cheeked Mme. Chideu runs a little grocery store near the Cherbourg water front. Housewives who come in for fruit, milk, butter and vegetables love to gossip with the patronne over anything & everything, from the latest grapevine news to the capers of les americains. Last week TIME Correspondent William Walton walked into Mme. Chideu's shop. He asked her and some of her customers how things were going, came away with a human report on Allied fiscal policy in one corner of France...
Meanwhile, convention plans went full-steam ahead. Massachusetts' tall, toothy Representative John McCormack was picked to head the platform committee; the added list of speakers included Hollywood's Helen Gahagan (herself a candidate for Congress) and beefy, bonhomous War Correspondent Quentin Reynolds. Washington gossip had it that Senator Claude Pepper and Postmaster General Frank Walker would be at the Chicago end of the White House telephone wire; that the President might not even make an acceptance speech, but just acknowledge his renomination at a regular White House press conference. And in Chicago, Ed Kelly's Illinois Democrats...
Premier Ivanoe Bonomi's new Italian Government finally took office last week in Salerno, planned an early move to Rome. Correspondents picked up some intriguing gossip about the prelude to Allied approval...