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Your story about Hedda Hopper (TIME, May 25) gives the impression that my good friend John Chapman was dropped along with his column. Hedda Hopper's gossip may have triumphed over John Chapman's facts, but I happen to know that the New York Daily News is not dropping fact fancier John Chapman. I think Chapman readers would be pleased to know this fact...
...Queen is dead, long live the Queen!" whooped Hollywood's Daily Variety. While Variety whooped, the movie pressagents trooped to lunch with Gossip Columnist Hedda Hopper. New "Queen" Hedda had just signed a contract with the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate-a contract that nearly tripled the number of her readers...
...contrast with Chapman, who was his own legman and even typed his own copy, Hedda Hopper is real Hollywood. Not by accident has she risen in four years to challenge Lolly Parsons as chief outlet for Hollywood publicity. At 52, brown-haired, boisterous Hedda, who started life as plain Pennsylvania Quakeress Elda Furry, has been nearly 25 years in the movies (acting in over 100 pictures), was the fifth of the late Actor DeWolf Hopper's six wives, between times got "kicked around plenty" while staging fashion shows, coaching actors, selling real estate, even running for political office...
...pages of testimony and analysis, the cartel menace with which Arnold now salts his case was barely mentioned. But the patent system's dangerous "corrosion" of competition at home was made very real indeed. TNEC Chairman Joe O'Mahoney already has an other bill in the hopper to overhaul the U.S. patent laws. Chief proposed changes: 1) a much-mooted provision now almost standard in foreign patent laws, that the owner of a patent must license all comers who offer a reasonable royalty; 2) compulsory supervision by the Justice Department of all international patent agreements. Some other reforms...
...counter this measure, the Senate's friends of labor, La Follette of Wisconsin and Thomas of Utah, slipped into the hopper a bill to impose on management that violated labor laws criminal penalties up to $10,000 in fines, six months in prison. Any anti-labor law would thus come smack up against the La Follette-Thomas bill, would have to fight with it for Senatorial consideration...