Word: newshen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much did this rolling stock cost?" Beebe (Shuddering slightly): "That's vulgar!" Clegg (to newsmen): "I wouldn't ask how much your suit cost." Beebe: "But Governor Harriman just bought a railroad car for $500,000." Clegg: "And they tell me it's real plain." A newshen (to Beebe's chef): "What do they drink, mostly?" Chef: "Everything, lady...
Married. Gregory Peck, 40, lanky, Lincolnesque cinemactor (Roman Holiday); and Veronique Passani, 22, half-Russian, half-Corsican Parisian newshen; 19 hours after his twelve-year-old marriage (three children) finally ended in divorce; in Lompoc, Calif...
...Rome, Cinemactress Gloria Swanson, 567 became a member of the working press, supplying United Press with continent twice a week on "the international scene in general." For her first piece, Newshen Swanson sewed a new patch on a frayed theme: the U.S. male is a lousy lover. "Nobody can say I'm too young to know what I'm talking about," wrote Columnist Swanson, whose five marriages (three Americans, one Frenchman, one Irishman) all ended in divorce. The trouble with American men, said she, is that they have been so busy making money that they have lost "that...
When Tobacco Heiress Doris Duke sued Confidential magazine for $3,000,000 for libel, United Feature Syndicate's Columnist Inez Robb sounded a hearty bravo. Wrote Newshen Robb: "Miss Duke has just struck a blow for liberty, freedom and decency . . . against the most putrid of the so-called 'exposé' magazines now defiling newsstands. Let us hope that . . . the gutter journalists responsible draw a stiff jail or penitentiary sentence...
...little odd," thought the President. Then, glancing to see that Mamie was out of earshot, he blurted, "I guess I like that one on Mrs. McKinley." Ida Saxton McKinley was indeed handsome in high-necked, ivory-hued satin with flowing train. Not pretty oldfashioned? asked a newshen. "Well, I guess so," Ike admitted, reluctant to be pinned down any more on the sensitive subject of feminine fashion. To escape, he scanned the room for Mamie and, not seeing her, fled, exclaiming, "Hey, I've lost a wife...