Word: gossips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President Kennedy's action last fortnight in ordering Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh Burke to rewrite almost completely a speech that minced no words about Russia brought press growls from several quarters. Said the New York Daily News: "Such suppressions can only stir up rumors, gossip and exaggerated guesses as to what the muzzled persons would say if permitted to talk...
...weeks ago, Gossip Columnist Walter Winchell sat down behind a typewriter and pecked out a column. It was the first he had written in nearly two months; but whatever Winchell had to say he kept to himself. "I went to the typewriter from sheer boredom, doing nothing," he said. "I played around with a column and then tore it up. I'm just not ready to pick up again...
...wife. At week's end she left for the Winchell winter home in Scottsdale, Ariz., near Phoenix, to be followed shortly by her husband on a holiday that Mrs. Winchell expects to last at least through May. By then, Winchell may conceivably feel like returning to his gossip gathering. But Mrs. Winchell is inclined to doubt it. "It may be in the fall," says she. "And it may be never...
Engelhard is almost as busy in U.S. politics as in business. A big contributor to the Democratic Party, he organized the National Committee of Business and Professional Men and Women for Kennedy and Johnson. After the success he scored with this operation, there is gossip that he may be in line for a high Government post or for the Democratic nomination for Governor of New Jersey. Of these rumors, says Engelhard: "I'm not in search of a new job, as I am quite gainfully and actively employed, but I would give any proposal consideration...
...wound stripes. A malicious rumor was dry-docked at New York's River Club that Joe Kennedy had given Jackie a million dollars not to divorce Jack. An Ohio woman remarked darkly that "she's both French and Catholic. The wine will flow in the White House." Gossip columnists reported seriously that Jackie was not pregnant-that it was all an elaborate hoax to remove her from the campaign scene. Her biggest battle-the affair of the sable underwear-was touched off when Women's Wear Daily reported that Jackie and her mother-in-law spend...