Word: gossip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story had made the rounds in Rome, where newspapers first printed it in August. Hedda Hopper gingerly slipped it into her gossip column last month as a rumor, and Hollywood had buzzed with it ever since. But last week, when Columnist Louella Parsons spread it as fact all over the front pages of the Hearst papers, a nation of moviegoers gawked. Screamed Hearst's Los Angeles Examiner across eight columns: INGRID BERGMAN BABY DUE IN 3 MONTHS IN ROME...
...Soviet Military Hospital in Eastern Berlin's Ober-Schoneweide suburb. Six Soviet soldiers escorted him to the second floor suite usually reserved for Russian generals. The Communist Radio Berlin said Grotewohl had the grippe. Privately, top Communist leaders said he had a nervous breakdown. According to Berlin gossip, Grotewohl had long been afraid that the Russians were out to liquidate him as politically unreliable, for weeks had kept his lights burning all night in his Berlin residence. One morning he reportedly found Comrade Ulbricht riffling through his mail in his office and promptly went into a screaming rage. East...
...dealers knew the reason for the switch: LP records, made not only by Columbia but by 21 other manufacturers, have been outselling RCA's 45, although RCA sales have been picking up since its new promotion campaign (TIME, Sept. 5). Announcement of the new machines stirred up more gossip that RCA would soon put its classical music on LP records, keep making the 45s for popular tunes only...
...exciting bit of atomic gossip was loudly whispered about last week through Washington's resonant corridors. Tipsters were insisting that U.S. scientists are working on "the hydrogen bomb." The rumors started when Colorado's Senator Edwin Johnson, member of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, told a television audience that the U.S. was trying to make a bomb i ,000 times as powerful as the one used at Hiroshima...
Some years before, he had made a trip to Washington and stayed at the Mayflower. He liked many things about it, including the Presidential Dining Room where columnists, politicos and union chiefs served up the latest gossip as piping hot as the famed terrapin soup. Most of all he liked the way the Mayflower had gone through the financial wringer and come out making money. He bought...