Word: gossiper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chinese reaction to all this was mixed. In Chungking, the people already had visions of hordes of American planes darkening the skies. The new airfields-cleared and rolled by the forced labor of thousands of peasants-were ready for U.S.-made bombers. Even Flying Fortresses were said, by Chungking gossip, to be en route. Teahouse strategists pundited: four of these "flying blockhouses" with great walls around them and high watch towers will be anchored in the air at four corners of the city to protect the capital...
Self-styled ''news columnist," 34-year-old, long-nosed Leonard Lyons is in a class by himself. A teetotaler, he probably works harder, more soberly and methodically than any gossip columnist living. Until his start in columning (1934), he swears he had never been in a nightclub. Now, six nights a week, he goes to 14 Manhattan nightspots. Methodically he leaves home at 11, returns like clockwork at 4:30 to write his column, always makes his 7 a.m. deadline. Punctually at 3 p.m. he goes to his office, where he is available to tipsters until seven...
Proud of having been sued only once-by a vaudeville actor who died of acute alcoholism while suing Lyons for calling him a heavy drinker-Lyons admits getting about 60% of his gossip from nightclubs, the rest from outside sources. Considering the number of non-Broadway anecdotes in his column, the nightclub percentage seems high. But Columnist Lyons points out that a lot of people stop at nightclubs: he met Mrs. Roosevelt in one, Alfred Landon in another, Soviet Ambassador Oumansky in the Stork Club...
Died. Poultry Farmer Philip Morgan Plant, 39, who until seven years ago lived in gossip columnists' showcases; in Manhattan. Born Philip Manwaring, he was adopted by his mother's second husband, transportation Tycoon Morton F. Plant, who left him $15,000,000. Divorce from Cinemactress Constance Bennett cost him a $1,000,000 settlement, divorce from Big Game Huntress Edna Dunham a fifth as much, an auto crash with Showgirl Helene Jesmer $75,000. His third wife, ex-Showgirl Marjorie King, survives as his widow...
Last week Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art began showing 15 of Britain's documentary war films to small though ardent daily audiences. Intended to convey specific wartime advice entertainingly to the home population, they deal with such subjects as the dangers of gossip, the activities of the Home Guard, how the R.A.F. keeps its score of downed Nazi planes, etc. They are on view in Manhattan strictly as examples of cinema...