Word: tattler
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...syndication in 450 newspapers. But it seemed that the wag had tailed the dogged daily routine too long. Says he: "I would like to work end to end on something." Though he plans to spend more time on Shoe and the featherbrained journalists who work for the Treetops Tattler Tribune, MacNelly is hardly going out on a limb: started less than four years ago, the strip is already syndicated in 650 newspapers...
...movie and the new Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein book, The Final Days (TIME, March 29), have combined to revive the search for the tattler-patriot who served the Nixon Administration while helping to bring it down. In surreptitious pre-dawn meetings during the unraveling of Watergate, as Woodward tells it, Deep Throat often confirmed and occasionally volunteered devastating information learned in his "sensitive" Government post...
...quality that elevates those chosen institutions above their peers is, quite simply, Quality-as denned in a recent issue of W, the biweekly tattler of taste and chic presided ever by John Burr Fairchild. Since it was launched three years ago last week by the graciously gossipy publisher of Women's Wear Daily and seven other trade publications, W has toiled relentlessly to depict, extol and embody that elusive trait. This year alone, W has identified everything from Quality People (Queen Elizabeth, Elliot Richardson, Julia Child, the Due de Brissac, Sir Cecil Beaton and 33 others) to Quality Bread...
...tips that helped the Internal Revenue Service recover $18.1 million last year, 822 "tax tattlers" earned rewards totaling $565,254. Although payments to tipsters hit an average of $687, reported Commerce Clearing House last week, hardly anyone knows the range of their rewards-except the IRS, of course, which taxes the payoffs. The tax code sets the "normal" payoff as 10% of whatever money informers bring in, but district tax collectors can pay whatever a tip is worth. Moreover, "no unauthorized person shall be advised of the identity of the informant"-a provision which protected the 3,672 informers whose...
...feel like Dr. Frankenstein. I taught her everything she knows, and she's damn smart." Thus did chain-smoking Houston Post Gossip Columnist Bill Roberts, 43, express his frustration about a journalistic "creation" that has come home to haunt him: blonde Maxine Mesinger, 35, tattler for the Houston Press. Once Roberts' girl Friday on the Press, Maxine last week was still scooping her way through town as his chief rival, barely noting a snippy feud that has Houstonians gabbing as much about the two columnists as about the people they chronicle...