Word: gossips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high stone-walled Chungking compound, the "Gissimo" and "Gissima," as Chungkingites call them, receive hundreds of generals, diplomats, politicians, distinguished foreign journalists. Centre of resistance and focus of command, the compound is also an amusing object of gossip. No act of this remarkable pair is too trivial for discussion all over China: if he flies to Chengtu for two days' rest, it is taken to mean that the Government is moving; if she flies to Hong Kong to have her teeth fixed, it is rumored that China will borrow ?25,000,000 from Britain...
...that mileage tickets are to be issued shortly by the German Railway so that without waiting for fare adjustments following the war they can gratify long-harbored desires to visit Paris and the Riviera. Chief object of interest, however, was the Maginot Line, now in occupied territory, and boulevard gossip in Berlin indicated that it would soon become the world's most elaborate and expensive tourist attraction...
...capital. Last week, ready to launch his paper, he had successfully whipped up an almost unprecedented amount of advance publicity. Even out of hiring a staff he got publicity: he launched a prize contest through the Museum of Modern Art to select staff artists; columnists printed gags and gossip as he picked up his staff...
...licensed radio amateurs in the U. S., some 5,000 regularly worked foreign stations. For the most part their conversations with alien hams consisted of trivia about the weather, eclectic gossip of tubes and frequencies. When war came, most amateurs subscribed to a self-imposed neutrality code, foreswore all contacts with hams in Europe. Last week FCC further restricted their activities, forbade them to signal any foreign hams at all. Prohibited also was the use of any portable transmitter capable of sending messages "farther than the line of sight." Violators face immediate loss of license and up to $500 fine...
...amusement capital of the nation is chronically bored. There are too many entertainers in Hollywood who want to be entertained on their nights off, too few gilded saloons to entertain them. Hollywood gets tired of making the round of its half-dozen bars, listening to its own prolific gossip. Recently Hollywood found an exciting new interest-the war. Before the invasion of France most Hollywooders began (and ended) their reading of the press with the movie columns. Now they are beginning to bend an ear toward Roosevelt, Churchill and Reynaud with as much respect as toward Louella Parsons or Jimmie...