Word: hearsts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parties, Khrushchev-likes to buttonhole diplomats, talk to them endlessly in badly phrased, ungrammatical Russian. Only a few days before, he had joked and winked with foreign newsmen about the idea of capitalists and Communists sitting around a table talking together, and as he assured visiting Publisher William Randolph Hearst Jr.* that there was no possibility of a rift between himself and Malenkov, his blue eyes were as candid as a baby...
...Dimes fashion show in Manhattan, well-known ladies from all walks of U.S. life dressed them selves in newly designed getups, paraded about the grand ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria to help raise money for a final victory over polio. Among the models were austerely beautiful Mrs. William Randolph Hearst Jr. (who displayed what Couturier Charles James called "the highest bust line in 125 years"), socially registered Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, TV Star Margaret Truman, and split-bustled sometime Stripteaser-Novelist Gypsy Rose Lee. Bubbled Gypsy: "I don't worry about shoes. When they start looking at my shoes...
...native of Providence, Bill Robinson graduated from New York University, did so well as the New York World-Telegram local ad manager that the Hearst chain grabbed him, made him assistant general manager. In 1936 the New York Herald Tribune hired him away as ad manager, eventually made him executive vice president and publisher. A year ago, after the death of Steve Hannagan, Robinson left the Trib to boss the publicity agency. He has resigned from Robinson-Hannagan, but the firm will continue to handle Coke's public relations...
...avoid any incident which might lead to general hostilities." After a routine tirade charging that the real cause of trouble was "the gross interference of the U.S. in the internal affairs of China," Molotov said he would consider it. (Molotov was more expansive later when visiting Publisher William Randolph Hearst Jr. asked if there might be a local cease-fire to permit the bloodless evacuation of the Tachens. "If Chiang Kai-shek should desire to withdraw his forces from any islands, hardly anyone would try to prevent him from doing so," said Molotov dryly...
Such society gossipists as Igor (Cholly Knickerbocker) Cassini of Hearst's New York Journal-American operate on the principle that "there is nothing more deadly boring than a group of people who have just social position and nothing else." In his syndicated column of elegant keyhole peeping and pub-crawling, Cassini is far from boring. He not only covers the fanciest parties and loudest brawls, but his columns also include such items as: "When the Jelke trial opens-the chi chi neighbors along 72nd Street will hear all about the $300-a-month apartment [call] girls operated there...