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From Cuba, Gossipist Leonard Lyons reported upon a merry encounter with old friends: "The Havana tourist season hasn't started yet. 'That's why this is a good time for working,' Ernest Hemingway had told us earlier, at lunch at his home. On the wall was the mounted skin of the lion Mary Hemingway had shot in Africa. No bullet hole was evident. 'I'm almost embarrassed,' she smiled. 'I shot him while he was running away...
...rising tide of inflation is lapping at movieland's loftiest crags, according to Gossipist Sheilah Graham, who cheerfully prattled: "Mickey Rooney will try marriage again with [fourth] wife Elaine. With the high cost of alimony, Hollywood males are finding it cheaper to reconcile...
...weak moment Gossipist Walter Winchell confided to his readers: "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 is." But for his return to TV last week on ABC's filmed crime series, The Walter Winchell File, the columnist-turned-actor slowed down his Teletype voice; what he said was still unimportant but, thanks in considerable part to a good script by ex-New York Daily Mirror Reporter Adrian Spies, never dull. The story concerned a psychopathic killer...
...collectors get at his fortune (estimated at $500 million), the late Aga Khan may have outsmarted himself and deprived his heirs of millions. While much of the half-billion was stored in such tax havens as Lichtenstein, Tangier and Switzerland, his heirs, according to a Paris gossipist, are hunting for the balance of about $100 million in safety deposit vaults of banks around the world, where the Aga often made deposits under assumed names, and in many investments-stocks, plantations, mines, real estate-that he made in the names of trusted go-betweens whose identities he alone knew...
...columns each week, Gossipist Miller ticks off more than 300 names of celebrities against a catalogue of follies and foibles that range from adultery to vandalism. Yet Miller has never been horsewhipped or even sued for libel-probably because nobody takes him that seriously. He has no paid professional legmen, but he finds policemen "fantastic sources-after all, they've got eight hours to watch four blocks," and admits that press-agents give.him tips and check items for him on a quid pro quo basis. The quo: "Tickets for a play, or maybe a member of their family needs...