Word: gossiper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...program was a streamlined assistant secretary, blonde and blue-eyed Miss Virginia Hoagland. To attract their wives as well as the younger instructors themselves, the women's suite on the second floor was refurbished. It took very little encouragement for this to become the bridge, mah jong, and gossip center of Cambridge. In return the coeds each week give some professor a chance to lecture uninterruptedly not only his own missus but his colleagues' wives as well...
...most of the talk naturally concerned Japan. Admiral Thomas Charles Hart, Commander in Chief of the Asiatic Fleet, had decided to evacuate 2,000 Navy wives from the Philippines. He had said, diplomatically, that their husbands would be on patrol duty a great deal. And jittery gossip went around Manila concerning the U. S. Army court-martial of brown, good-looking little Rufo Romero...
Used to their comparative anonymity, cameramen lead the most normal lives of Hollywood's high-salaried citizens, rarely appear in the gossip columns or at Goldwyn, Mayer or Zanuck parties. They own houses, raise families. Professionally, they are tied in a union as exclusive as a London club, the American Society of Cinematographers, which, until its recent application for an A. F. of L. charter, had no truck with national affiliations. It costs $100 to join, holds a closed-shop contract with all major studios...
Hollywood can forget quickly. Two days after it was over, the national election was as dated as last week's newsreel, as dull as last week's gossip. The local election was a different story. Unseated after twelve years was Los Angeles' redbaiting Republican District Attorney Buron Fitts, who has more titillating Hollywood scandal under his bonnet than a dog has fleas. With just an occasional heckle from the film colony's left wing because of his unvarying kindness to the industry's big shots, Fitts sashayed complacently through his duties without any qualms about...
...Among magazines, TIME, LIFE and FORTUNE are"too vital"to be"analyzed." Nevertheless Howe gives a short chapter to them, larded with numerous gossip-begotten errors of detail but closer to the truth than most accounts. Astonishing remark: that because Mr. and Mrs. Henry R. Luce were in the Low Countries in the spring of 1940, "the editorial policy of TIME promptly underwent a sea change...