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...syndicated column, fast-talking (about 215 words a minute) radio-TV Gossipist Walter Winchell gave an unusually candid explanation of his delivery speed: "The reason I talk fast is that if I talk slowly people will be able to hear what I say and find out how dull and unimportant it really...
...nerves is already underway. Wildcat strikes and work stoppages plague the auto industry. A rumor, apparently planted by the union, that both G.M. and Ford would settle for some sort of guaranteed annual wage before negotiations start, was spread by such scattered sources as Columnist Drew Pearson, Gossipist Leonard Lyons and the newsletter of Manhattan's Chemical Corn Exchange Bank. The rumor was vehemently denied by management, and G.M.'s Labor Negotiator Harry Anderson even hustled to Manhattan to straighten out the bank...
During the Army v. McCarthy hearings, Hearst Gossipist Walter Winchell bubbled with tips, inside stories, and the kind of scoops that are his stock in trade. But last week the biggest Winchell exclusive of the hearings backfired and landed him before the Watkins committee considering the McCarthy censure charges (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The committee, which is trying to decide whether McCarthy improperly received and used secret Government documents, thought Winchell might help them. Four months ago Winchell had bragged in print that he had his own copy of the "Personal & Confidential" document on the loyalty of Fort Monmouth personnel that...
...columnists and made bold to pay his first visit to a movie set and watch his wife, Marilyn Monroe, in action. She was rehearsing that old Irving Berlin scorcher, Heat Wave, for a movie called No Business Like Show Business. During the usual interminable delay, DiMaggio turned to Movie Gossipist Sidney Skolsky, one of the chiders, and muttered: "I keep reading in the papers and fan magazines that I must be an odd ball . . . be cause I don't visit my wife on the set. Now that I'm here, everyone looks at me and asks...
...famous photographer of women, Philippe Halsman, "she has the finest figure of any actress I have known." In Paris a new phrase (les lollos) is being used in brassiere advertisements. In Lon don Sir Jacob Epstein, the famed sculptor, has done a bust of Gina, and in Manhattan, Gossipist Walter Winchell has been gushing about the new "Lollopalooza...