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...Haines' comments to the world feel like "wisecracks"--his trademark brand of defensive humor--and it's hard to get a feeling that we understand this man's inner life. Even less information remains about Shields, and what reminiscences his friends do offer sound rather more boorish than endearing. (Rumor has it that Haines' estrangement from Cole Porter, for instance, was precipitated by Porter's catching Jimmie undecorously having sex with a sailor in the bushes during one of his elegant soirees...
There were whispers that after a White House conversation with Travolta, Clinton put pressure on Germany to soften its stance toward the Church of Scientology, of which the actor is an outspoken adherent, and that in return Travolta portrayed Stanton more sympathetically. That rumor gets a sneer from Klein ("I don't think Clinton would change policy toward Germany to get better treatment from John Travolta"), but the actor has warm memories of the chat, in which he says Clinton spoke of an old roommate who had been a Scientologist. Travolta insists his performance wasn't swayed by the President...
...corner. The forces of Steve Case, who pays $3,000 a month for the Drudge Report, moved Wednesday to have the suit thrown out on the grounds that they cannot be held responsible for its content. If that motion succeeds, the Web will remain a safe haven for rumor, gossip and innuendo, but Drudge could still be personally liable for what he actually said...
...have only one mild word of protest. I am not, as you have twice stated in your columns, the original, or part-original, of Larry in Maugham's The Razor's Edge. I can stand a good deal of kidding from my friends, but this rumor has poisoned my life for the past six months, and I wish it would die as quickly as possible. CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD Santa Monica, Calif...
...Rumors flew of strange influenza-like diseases affecting animals, even moose, according to the pandemic's chronicler, Alfred W. Crosby Jr. One rumor turned out to be true--disturbingly so for anyone familiar with the subsequent history of influenza research and the recent Hong Kong outbreak. Farmers in 1918 discovered that something was making their pigs very sick, with high fevers and bad coughs. No such pig flu had ever been noticed before 1918, but every fall thereafter an influenza-like illness attacked the nation's hog population. In 1928 a researcher from the Rockefeller Institute, Richard E. Shope, went...