Word: tipstering
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Mitch Miller, director of pop music for Columbia Records, got a telephone call last week that made him pull his beard. Musical bootleggers, said his tipster, were copying Rosemary Clooney's (and Columbia's) fast-selling disk Come on-a My House, then peddling it cut rate to distributors under phony Columbia labels...
...Wars I and II were called dollar-a-year men. This time they are called WOCs-for "without compensation." When Emanuel Celler's House subcommittee announced recently that it was going to check up on Washington's WOCs, it got a mysterious tip. The Congressmen, said the tipster, should look into some of the steel allocations made by the National Production Authority...
...court and in his column, Lawyer Lyons said that he would not obey any such order, portentously proclaimed that relations between columnist and tipster are as sacred as the relations between "client and lawyer, physician and patient, confessor and clergyman." (Snapped Lyons' fellow columnist Walter Winchell: "Let him go to jail. It will give me a big laugh...
...that strange new tribe of international do-gooders who are not quite diplomats, not quite newspapermen, and not quite experts on anything. A correspondent of the Erwin News Agency, (headquarters in Washington), he had broadcast interviews with U.N. notables over a Manhattan F.M. radio station, served as a tipster for the London Daily Mirror. He had a marked talent for big-name-dropping, and for catching rides in official delegation cars. He made himself popular-particularly with the delegation from Siam. Weyman had let it be known that in World War II he personally rescued Siam's Prince...
...tipster gave an exact address, then hung...