Word: gossiper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Harold R. Stark, Chief of The Air Forces' Major General Henry H. Arnold, Assistant Secretary of War Robert Porter Patterson. No longer at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, said luncheon-table gossip in New York, was the Navy's new battleship, North Carolina...
...tabloid snob-gossip's dream week, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, 28, the country's best-known young multimillionaire sportsman, was sued for divorce in New York by Manuela Hudson Vanderbilt (charges: adultery with two corespondents). Said Alfred's mother, Mrs. Margaret Emerson, who has been married four times: "I wouldn't give much for him if he didn't. After all, he's a normal young man and he has been separated from his wife for eight months. He wouldn't be a son of mine if he stopped living." Wept crocodile Hearstling Cholly...
From then on, Jacob Djugashvili, son. of Joseph Stalin, was nobody. No one in the foreign embassies in Moscow ever met him; all they heard was tenuous gossip: Jacob secretly running off with a poor seamstress . . . Jacob working in a factory to boost morale . . . Jacob not doing; very well at the Commissariat for Heavy Industry. Finally he disappeared into the Army...
During the Hour he may hear the gossip of fellow agrarians, enjoy snatches of semi-classical music and follow the adventures of "Uncle Sam's Forest Rangers" as they plow through a script prepared by the U.S. Forest Service. He chuckles at the antics of Aunt Fanny, postmistress of mythical Cheery Valley, smiles knowingly when Announcer Everett Mitchell gets off his famed daily greeting (often in the midst of a nor'easter): "It's a beautiful day in Chicago...
...South African diamond merchant, Vanda began his career in the U.S. as copywriter for J. Walter Thompson, which never saw its way clear to use any of his copy. Later he did small-time press-agentry, served as saxophonist in a band, was a gossip columnist for Theatre Magazine, broke into radio as a theatrical commentator. In 1933 he joined CBS, was made West Coast program director in 1938. Vanda is married to the sister of Benay Venuta, lives in what he describes as a "synthetic estate" atop a hill in North Hollywood, now earns some $700 weekly from...