Word: gossips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME'S Cleveland correspondent wrote: "Picketing is de luxe. No walking. Pickets sit in open-front tarpaulin huts, with heat provided by salamanders. Men play cards, gossip, drink coffee. At night some hold potato and wiener roasts. Women pickets gossip and giggle...
...aspect of newspaper irresponsibility," said he, "is the latitude granted to some syndicated columnists. Undoubtedly one or two of [them] . . . are among the most powerful men in the world today. ... To their doors there is beaten a path by those motivated by malicious gossip, revenge, or character assassination. And no man is safe from these weapons...
...editor of your page on People [TIME, Dec. 17] must be hard up for copy and cuts when he has to fall back on a 13-year-old photo of my friends Joad and Price, and serve it up as current gossip. This photo was taken in a private museum in Chiswick, London, England, on Sept...
...Opposers. The Tories must take a shorter view. It is the talk of London that Winston Churchill, to all effects, is out of the Party leadership. At most, says many a knowing Tory gossip, he will manage to hang on for a brief interim, then hand it over. To whom? There's the rub. The Tory Party today is virtually in the position most Americans thought the Democratic Party was in during Franklin Roosevelt's tenure...
Mugg-Maker. From his desk overlooking the street, on a dais where a coutouriére's models once paraded. Silverman fed items to fledgling Gossip Walter Winchell, made knowing muggs out of Jack Lait (now editor of Hearst's New York Mirror) and Columnist Louis Sobol, bought pieces from Quentin Reynolds, Funnymen Fred Allen, Joe Laurie Jr., Milton Berle. As show business became big business and Variety grew, he covered radio and the "niteries," added a Hollywood daily edition and bureaus in London and Paris, picked up scores of stringers in the U.S. and abroad...