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When Paramount Pictures Inc. decided to film The Lost Weekend, the horrendous novel about a dipsomaniac, it also uncorked a stream of scuttlebutt. Tongues wagged that the liquor industry was trying to stop Paramount, had tried to buy it off with $2,000,000, etc. Last week, as the movie won the plaudits of critics & public, Seagram-Distillers Corp. added...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: A Toast By Seagram's | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

...Scuttlebutt reports that the Indianapolis ran into a minefield are ridiculed by Navy higher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMAND: The Captain Stands Accused | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

Charles A. Lindbergh's shooting role in the war ceased to be a scuttlebutt topic. A press association reported: Civilian Lindbergh, in 1944, as a technical adviser in the South Pacific, went out in a formation with Major Richard ("Dick") Bong. A Zero jumped them. Civilian Lindbergh fired one burst from the guns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dogfights | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

Autos to Sleepers. To the line-up of potential buyers of the Pullman Co.'s $80 million fleet of cars, scuttlebutt added the name of Detroit's auto body builders, the Fisher Brothers. The five vigorous Fishers, with an estimated $250 million to invest, are looking for good businesses to buy. They now own a big chunk of stock in Baldwin Locomotive Works, have an eye on Hudson Motor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facts & Figures, Oct. 1, 1945 | 10/1/1945 | See Source »

There has been only one reported instance of a Kamikaze pilot being found dressed in a ceremonial black silk robe (the scuttlebutt has enlarged on this to draw a picture of mass pre-suicide funeral ceremonies before the airmen take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Divine Tempests | 4/23/1945 | See Source »

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