Word: gossips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Right Hand. A fortnight ago, in the Telegraph's erudite gossip column, "London Day by Day," by "Peterborough" (Hugo Wertham), an unobtrusive item recorded an exceptional occurrence at the Telegraph itself. After 48 years on the staff, 70-year-old Editor Watson was retiring. His successor, who took over last week: grey-haired Colin Reith Coote, 56, deputy editor and Watson's right-hand man for the last five years...
...rest of McCarthy's accusations,, said Lattimore, were based on "perverse and twisted" quotations from his books, on phrases lifted out of context, on old, discredited rumors and gossip from highly suspect sources. Said Lattimore: "I get a certain amount of wry amusement out of the fact that some of these people are acknowledged ex-Communists. Perhaps that status gives them a special right to criticize those of us who do not happen to be Communists, ex-or otherwise...
...campaign got action in official Washington. The House subcommittee on immigration gave Ellen Knauff her first full public hearing. Wearing a pert sailor hat and a smart suit, Mrs. Knauff made an appealing and convincing witness; she blamed a jealous ex-sweetheart of her husband's for spreading "gossip" that she was a spy. Offered an opportunity to submit its own evidence and to question Mrs. Knauff, the Department of Justice refused on the ground that it would jeopardize its intelligence sources. With no evidence against Mrs. Knauff, the committee unanimously reported out a bill directing the Attorney General...
...personal life," he keeps repeating, "is nobody's business but my own." His passion for privacy is one of the things that has made him unpopular with gossip-hungry sportwriters and fans. It has also helped conceal an extremely generous nature. On the road he is known to waiters and bellhops as a "buck-tipper" and a soft touch. He divided $1,000 of his 1946 World Series check among the clubhouse helpers. He sends his mother upwards of $7,000 a year, likes to visit shut-in children in hospitals, provided there are no reporters around...
...pink-cheeked Thomas I. Parkinson, president of the $5.3 billion Equitable Life Assurance Society. Last week Parkinson announced a smart new solution to the problem. Equitable will buy cars from Pullman and other manufacturers (in payments spread over five years), and lease them to railroads on 15-year contracts. Gossip among railroad men was that the rent will be less than the $1.75 a day which roads now charge when they swap each other's equipment. When the contracts expire, the roads may return the cars to Equitable, or rent them for another ten years...