Word: scuttlebutt
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Scotching scuttlebutt that she is getting a Mexican divorce, Five & Dime Heiress Barbara Mutton, 43, gave the highest marks to her sixth husband, Tennisocialite Baron Gottfried von Cramm (whom she married last November, has seen often since). In London, Barbara declared: "Gottfried is the only one who has really wanted me to love him. I won't say my previous husbands thought only of my money, but it had a certain fascination for them. It upset them...
...wears her hair in a severe hairdo and is often seen in a dark suit with white blouse and necktie. But last November she appeared at a big party affair in a slashing evening dress, danced with party bigwigs until 2 a.m. Moscow scuttlebutt says Ekaterina is now a sports car buff, drives a speedy ZIS 112. She is also said to be married to the Soviet Ambassador to Yugoslavia and to have two children, but in Russia, where no such private details are ever recorded in the public press, neither fact is readily verifiable...
...victory, and the happy notation that F.D.R. seemed about ready to "move" against the anti-New Deal oldsters on the Supreme Court-a fight in which "I hope to be able to take part." With an air of conscious righteousness, he records a piece of White House scuttlebutt: F.D.R. is about to sack more than half his Cabinet,* but will reappoint Honest Harold...
...Manhattan last week, Soprano Schwarzkopf was aware that political as well as musical scuttlebutt travels along the international grapevine, and was uneasy about her reception. "I know what people think they know," she said. "Seventy-five percent of the audience is for me; the other 25 percent wishes I were dead." But there was no demonstration, no picket line; nobody asked her about the old days in the Third Reich. Her managers were scheduling her for a return visit to the U.S. next fall for a two-month tour...
...Ever since the votes were counted last November, top Congressional Republicans have been arguing that Dwight Eisenhower should appoint a new team to replace the present U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff . . . Last week President Eisenhower privately assured his congressional leaders that he will name new chiefs . . . Scuttlebutt ranked the possible candidates this...