Word: gossip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ughh!" The violins swelled and the choral voices droned: "He started the first gossip column in town; Don Ameche invented the telephone for Walter so he could send out the news; he reported the way Jolson made people laugh and cry; and he helped J. Edgar Hoover with the FBI." From ringside, Rival Columnist Leonard Lyons whispered hoarsely: "And on the seventh day, he rested...
...Evan Hunter (375 pp.; Simon & Schuster; $4.50). Nature is easily kept in check by powered lawn mowers in suburban Pinecrest Manor, an hour from Broadway, but human nature creates a thick underbrush of sin and suffering. With the dull Cape Cods, the boring neighbors, the endless trivia of gossip, there is not much to turn to for excitement. Architect Larry Cole, who loves his wife and two youngsters after eight years of faultless married life, turns to Margaret Gault, a beautiful blonde whose husband spends a lot of time in an aircraft factory...
...much bigger reason for the new interest was continued gossip that the U.S. will soon raise the price of gold from $35 an ounce, where it has stayed since 1934, to $40. Such an action, went the talk, would not only ease the profit squeeze on many of the world's mining companies, but would also stimulate foreign trade by increasing the foreign-exchange reserves of many U.S. friends and allies...
...during his 40 frenzied financial years Errett Lobban Cord made a fetish of personal privacy, kept his door closed to all interviewers, stayed out of the gossip columns and away from all but a chosen few friends. It was only when he went into politics two years ago that Cord suddenly emerged as a hail fellow who obviously enjoyed his new role...
...they particularly conducive to one another, and at times the social intercourse threatens to submerge the literary culture. It is of course difficult to have a Platonic dialogue at lunch, but the general flow of conversation tends to center about daily affairs, topical anecdotes, and private and public gossip. There are virtually no more meetings to read papers or hold serious discussions. The concern for academic discipline, and especially for moral education, has almost disappeared. The assumption that a group of interesting people will spontaneously produce brilliant conversation when brought together does not often hold true after a morning...