Word: gossips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...smallest dabbler in penny stocks and the manager of a billion-dollar mutual fund have at least one thing in common: both men are always alert for the inside tip, the informed gossip that can lead to quick profit. Not surprisingly, stockbrokers often pick up those tips ahead of their customers. And they usually pass the information along to large institutions whose trading pays big commissions. Last week, for just such misuse of inside information, the Securities and Exchange Commission severely penalized the world's biggest brokerage house, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith...
...speaker defending Jackie Kennedy's marriage to Aristotle Onassis was no gossip columnist or pundit-indeed, few society reporters were so disposed. He was Richard Cardinal Cushing, Archbishop of Boston, Prince of the Holy Roman Church and-as it turned out last week-foremost a friend in need...
Actress Danièle Gaubert was in Rome filming Camille 2,000, a futuristic version of Dumas fils' classic, and gossip columnists made the most of every rumor about her life and hard times with ex-husband, Rhadamés Trujillo. The trigger-tempered playboy son of the late Dominican dictator had held her a virtual prisoner of love at his European estates for almost five years-or so the stories went. Then the romantic legend began to falter, as Danièle missed her cue and told reporters: "It's true that my husband wanted...
...Double Helix, James Watson's personalized account of the discovery of the structure of DNA, the master molecule of life, had one important side effect. It shocked many scientists into the realization that they are public figures-and fair game for biographers, critics and even gossip columnists. Last week the point was driven home again by the publication of another gossipy book, Lawrence and Oppenheimer, in which Author Nuel Pharr Davis calls the roll of America's nuclear greats. He judges them not only as scientists, but also as human beings. Some do not fare too well...
...Homer starts off by dividing all bond salesmen into twelve species. They include Legatus Caelestis, or Messenger from Mount Olympus, who "brings you eternal verities from on high (his firm's research department) "; Garrulus Defatigare, or Sophisticate, who bears "a bored air of nonchalance and yards of bond gossip"; and Hospes Hospitalis, or Jovial Host, who "will be anxious to have you share his innocent amusements. Handle this one with unusual caution...