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...Hollywood Columnist Sheilah Graham, although she long ago refused the titled suitor, found herself still in Spot No. 3. Just to the right of her in the new and different kind of chorus line stood, in order of rank, Louella O. ("Lolly") Parsons, queen of Hollywood gossipists, and Hedda Hopper, undisputed heiress apparent to Lolly-until Sheilah came along to contest the succession...
...entire studio. The Manhattan executive branches of the movie companies (available to Sheilah through her column m the New York Daily Mirror) also read the gossipists carefully for unflattering news and views of the West Coast. No one in movies is entirely safe from the heavy-heavy that Parsons, Hopper, Graham and other big-shot commentators hang constantly over Hollywood heads. Through her syndicated column for the North American Newspaper Alliance, Sheilah also tattles to 11 million ordinary readers, who pore over her paragraphs for entertainment, rather than as a tip to business strategy...
...script, Duke fingered his chin, said it was too bad that Larry had been a Communist, but damn courageous of him to admit it. He hoped, he added, that the confession wouldn't hurt Larry's career. At a mass meeting soon afterward, M.P.A. Vice President Hedda Hopper put the record straight. John Wayne to the contrary notwithstanding, she told the meeting and its abashed president, Larry Parks would most certainly not be forgiven. "Well, you certainly gave it to me," Duke told her with a grin. "You certainly deserved it," said Hedda. Later she confided...
...Bruce Hopper '24, associate professor of Government, observed that the meeting itself was part of the State Department's program of psychological warfare. "We can never out-lie the Bolshevists," Hopper said. "This is the era of the big But as soon as we fight on the same basis (of rewritten history), we have lost the fight...
Speaking will be Carl J. Friedrich, professor of Government, and McGeorge Bundy and Bruce C. Hopper '24, associate professors of Government. As part of the program, a special statement by President Conant will be read...