Word: gossips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...answer is yes, or so says The Ear. Since its first appearance ten months ago in the Washington Star, this brassy if not classy daily oracle has become the most talked-about gossip column in a town that takes chitchat to heart. The Ear draws more phone calls and mail than any feature in the paper and is cited as a factor in the financially troubled Star's 6% circulation gain over a year ago.* "The wickedest thing to hit Washington since the last Administration," wrote one fan. "You're a dirty fun of a snitch," said another...
...Washington, too. It now appears in 60 mostly medium-size dailies whose editors sense an appetite among readers for capital chatter. "New York's Great White Way is not so bright and glittering any more," says Bill Bondurant, managing editor of the Fort Lauderdale News. "The center of gossip today is Washington...
...Louise Lague, 28, both Star feature-story writers. Mc-Lellan, a perky Englishwoman who came to the U.S. 19 years ago, and Lague, a tall (5 ft. 8 in.), Rhode Island-born former reporter for the now defunct Washington Daily News, stay out of the limelight. Unlike other professional gossip collectors, they avoid parties and are rarely seen at fashionable restaurants. Their first trip together to swank Sans Souci got them, in Lague's phrase, a table in "Haute Siberia." "Our work is done on the phone," says she. "We check our items. We don't run rumor...
...RUMORS. Gossip and misinformation can as easily create a prejudicial threat to defendants as news accounts. Disagreeing last week, Simants' prosecutor, Milton C. Larson, argued before the court that "a potential juror would much more likely put aside something Mrs. Jones told her than what she read in the newspaper...
...Eileen: old-fashioned girl comes to the big city because she is too special to settle down with a small-town Chevy dealer. In her memoir Laughing All the Way (1973), North Carolina-born Howar outlined just how special she was. Emerging from postmarital tristesse, she became a Washington gossip item. Names dropped like martini olives. Jealousies were disguised by a jovial rictus...