Word: gossips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Then the story of America will be repeated on tom-toms of the African jungle, in the gossip of Arab bazaars, under the shady trees of the Champs Elysées, in the temples and along the holy rivers of the East. The ring of truth around the world will drown the strident lies of Moscow's propaganda. One hundred years ago America was the wonder of humanity and the symbol of man's hopes and goals everywhere...
...distorted the speech to make it sound as if he were supporting the Communist party line on the Far East. Agents of the Army's Counter-intelligence Corps (which Thorpe himself helped organize in the Pacific) descended on his home town of Westerly, R.I., a small community where gossip spreads fast. The agents questioned Thorpe's neighbors and friends about his loyalty. The agents based the questions on the Worker's version of Thorpe's speech. Instead of standing his ground, Thorpe withdrew as a candidate for fear he would embarrass his party. Last week...
...promptly enrolled as a good friend of Kate and the Hepburn family. This was the fate of many another Hepburn admirer. Some of them found it galling. Because Kate dislikes nightclubs, and lives a fairly cloistered life, only two of her romances have figured in the gossip columns. One was with Producer Leland Hayward (see PRESS), whose reading and tennis Kate tried hard to improve. The other was Howard Hughes, who was richer, taller, and better at golf than she was. But neither lasted...
...pitched, she herself has not always been the subject of affectionate comment, and many competitors, including that spectacularly be-hatted warrior, Hedda Hopper, have tried to beat her at her own game. But in 1952 Louella Parsons, after reigning over a quarter century, is still queen of the Hollywood gossip columnists. Her work appears daily in twelve Hearstpapers and is syndicated in some 1,200 others throughout the world. She is held in awe, respect, esteem, fear or terror, as the case may be, by practically everyone in Hollywood who has any connection with motion pictures. Every producer, director...
...Herex had good reason not to identify the source of its story. The paper had rewritten an item it picked up from an irresponsible, hate-Stevenson California newsletter with a tiny circulation. Had the Herex bothered to check the "gossip"? "Certainly," answered City Editor Aggie Underwood, "we phoned two or three local Democratic leaders. They just hummed and said that it was interesting." As to why no other papers in or out of the Hearst chain picked up the item. Editor Underwood had a pat explanation. Said she: "It was a purely local story...