Word: gossips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York Daily News Gossip Columnist Ed Sullivan discovered that a pro-Communist weekly, National Guardian (circ. 47,000), had bought a block of 300 seats for the April 8 performance of Wonderful Town, starring Rosalind Russell. The magazine planned to resell the tickets in a fund-raising campaign. Wrote Sullivan: "I'm quite sure, Rosalind, that you'll step out of this . . . job for the Kremlin." Producer Robert Fryer canceled the April 8 performance, told ticket holders they would get their money back...
...invented the gossip column," he says, and adds: "I was the real creator of daily illustrated journalism." He doesn't overstate it much. In 1905, as news and art editor of Northcliffe's Mirror, London's first picture tabloid, he helped it to pass the Daily Mail's circulation, which had been the world's biggest. But he really came into his own in 1926, after Northcliffe's death, when Beaverbrook hired him as drama critic of the Express...
...hair grow down over his ears, wore a gates-ajar collar, a flowing tie, funereal black hat, and dropped cigarette ashes all over himself. Aspiring journalists began copying his curt prose and his garb. Said the Manchester Guardian: "He taught Fleet Street that a gossip column should be written . . . with more candor than charity. He got up on stilts to teach reporters how to get off their knees in the presence of the powerful...
Holmes-Laski Letters, edited by Mark DeWolfe Howe. Nearly 1,500 pages of learning, gossip and friendly controversy between a skeptical old Brahmin and a Marxist intellectual (TIME, March...
Marriage Revealed. Sheilah Graham, fortyish, onetime London chorus girl turned Hollywood gossip columnist; and Wojciechowicz S. Wojtkiewicz, 35, a director of prison recreation programs for the California department of corrections; she for the third time, he for the first: in Ventura County, Calif...