Word: gossips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world's war fronts, the Army's 138 radio stations overseas will begin broadcasting a new show called Let's Go To Town. Produced by the National Association of Broadcasters, with strictly hometown casts, the show is a happy half-hour rambling of homey news, gossip, music, gags, carefully sidestepping sighs and tears...
...eyes of all the little American women who are trying to be useful to their country." Elsa, not little but conspicuously American, considers her parties, like her "Line," an important contribution to the nation's morale. She once swore she would never do a column, because she hates gossip and abhors café society ("The only society I recognize is that of intellect and talent"). Only because "people needed to laugh more" did she yield in 1941 when Paul Winkler of Press Alliance syndicate offered her 40% of the gross proceeds if she would try her hand at columning...
Hedda Hopper, gossip-columnist, paid off by filling a day's column for her rival Sidney Skolsky...
...there was the further complication of Washington's peripatetic global emissaries whose powers, purposes and accreditation were often more baffling than any Chinese puzzle. There was Vice President Henry Wallace. He cocked a nutritional eye at China's permanently underfed people, bent an eager ear to gossip of Chungking's and Chiang's political instability, buzzed back to Washington to pour his frightening reports into the Presidential ear. Then there were President Roosevelt's personal representatives, Donald Nelson, all new to China and China to him, and Major General Patrick Hurley. Worldly, well-tailored...
Jack Knight heard the gossip and took it to heart. Making good in his home town became the challenge. His program: get out of debt, then pay as you go. The Knight success story is impressive...