Word: gossips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Warren suddenly fell the full weight of campus gossip. Bursar Lebohner called in Warren for long talks; Coach Smith had him over for dinner. Said Smith: "Warren asked me once, 'What have I done wrong?' I couldn't advise him on that one." The pressure grew. "Dorothy and I tried to stop seeing each other," said Warren, "but it didn't work." Last December Warren finally quit school in a bitter mood: "I was railroaded out of town, almost." He went to New York City, looked for a job; Dorothy soon followed-for a week, until...
...classing them as "between novels and plays." None have been staged, though six have been adapted for radio. She writes in dialogue because "it just came naturally-I think in conversation." But she will not tolerate "frivolous" topics, as, for instance, the date of her birth ("Such matters are gossip...
...Dotty Kilgallen could also hold her own with her reportorial rivals in their own business: of all the celebrities covering, or attempting to cover, the Finch-Tregoff trial, she was the best known. At 46, the mother of three, Reporter Kilgallen conducts a syndicated daily gossip column, shares a daily small-talk radio program with her husband Dick Kollmar, and appears weekly on the television panel show What's My Line? In Los Angeles busy Dorothy sometimes attracted more interest than the trial itself: she posed for pictures with the defendants, signed scores of autographs for admirers, received...
Even after a coroner's verdict of accidental death, show business gossip ran on. The overdose of barbiturates that killed Actress Margaret Sullavan (TIME, Jan. 11) fitted too neatly into a pattern of eccentric behavior: departure from a Broadway show because of "ill health," the TV performance canceled at the last moment because she did not "feel up to the part." But last week it was Margaret who released a tragic explanation of her behavior. By leaving her temporal bones (which include the inner and middle ear) to the cause of medical research on deafness, she gave away...
...priest disappeared inside his two-story house, and soon a crowd gathered around it. Finally, a window flew open, and there stood Father John clasping a small bottle in his hand. "Take it!" he cried, flinging it down. "Now you can laugh. Now you can gossip. I do not care any more. I have taken poison and am dying." When they got to him, he was already unconscious, and shortly he died...