Word: gossips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...competent men. The press neither does its duty nor fulfills its destiny if it poisons its news columns with propaganda and private opinions; or is careless of its facts; or presents editorials written by the uninformed and swayed by hearsay; or publishes misleading advertising or vicious and sensational gossip from whatever source...
...press began playing at evasions, adding up small facts for its readers but stopping short of real information. Washington newsmen, who had watched Jimmy Byrnes, Harry Hopkins, Ed Stettinius, Judge Samuel I. Rosenman, and Anna Roosevelt Boettiger disappear frcm town, were nettled to read about it in Manhattan gossip columns. Picking up the ball, the New York Times's Cy Sulzberger cabled from Cairo that the Big Three were rumored to be already in session "in the Black Sea area . . . near the Soviet Union's southern borders...
...death (in 1796) when he was only 37, and whose admirers have periodically attempted to redeem his honor, got his bad reputation newly scotched by Dr. Sidney Watson Smith, onetime president of the British Medical Association. In the B.M.A.'s Journal, Dr. Smith presented medical evidence against the "gossip's fable," declared that Burns "suffered and died from subacute infective endocarditis -that microbic inflammation of the heart which usually has a fatal ending in septicaemia...
...Cover Girl Caravan" in its special car en route to the Coast, and the girls' adventures in their Beverly Hills house under "Mother" Colby's chaperonage (with eight "wolves" howling at the door one night and Mickey Rooney turning handsprings on the lawn another),made endless gossip-column copy. Colby followed up with personal calls on editors in 40 major cities. When Cover Girl finally appeared, it may not have been the best picture ever made, but it was certainly one of the best publicized. And Colby's reputation was made...
...This is roughly equivalent to an $18-billion U.S. war loan.) But skeptical French financiers flatly called the loan a failure. They passed along the almost unbelievable gossip that two-thirds of the bonds were apparently bought by: 1) Belgian money fleeing the harsh deflation measures in that country (TIME, Nov. 6); 2) German franc holdings, built up in the occupation, coming back into France via Switzerland...