Word: gossips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cigarettes and chitchat, it was agreed at a White House staff conference, can spoil the efficiency of any office. Out went the word to the 49 typists, stenographers, receptionists, filing clerks, etc. under the over-all eye of Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams: no smoke & gossip sessions when on the job in the White House...
...Urging government subsidies to boost the output of psychiatrists, Catholic University's Msgr. Maurice Sheehy declared: "Some day I hope to see a psychiatrist formally canonized by the church, to do away with idle gossip about conflict between learnings which have as their end the welfare of man and the kingdom of God. The priest and the psychiatrist should work shoulder to shoulder...
...most part, Author Phillips-Marquand tells his story at just above the level of fashionable young folks' gossip and at something less than the depth of a good college bull session. Why the George Marsh generation is lost (if it is) is a question that is never really asked, much less answered. Author Phillips can sketch scenes of prep school, Harvard and Manhattan fast-set life that have pace and surface savvy. That is something, at 28; enough, anyway, to have turned the nodding heads of the Book-of-the-Month judges, John Marquand Sr. abstaining...
Finally, the pressagents edged up to the portentous problem of what to do about notifying the gossip columnists: "Walter Winchell should be alerted to be given the first news of the Arnaz baby. We will phone the news to him, since he will be expecting the phone call. When he is alerted, he is to be told nothing of the gimmick but, when he receives the phone call, and not before, he will be given the story of Desi's thinking concerning the Ricardo baby. Of course, the news of the Arnaz baby will be given out simultaneously...
...were willing to go along with Fishback's "pilot study." Limited by his funds, he cut his list down to six town boards. Quizzing their 44 members, Fishback found that one board met privately whenever it felt like having "a heck of a good time" hashing over town gossip. Another believed its only duty was to "pass on maintenance of buildings," was astounded to hear that every facet of local education lay within its province...