Word: gossip
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...full career in the gossip columns long before he reached the financial pages. In the postwar years, taking up with a fast new international society, he ran around with Aly Khan, Rubi Rubirosa and Spain's auto-racing Marquis de Portago. Gianni's crowd gathered in Paris, London and Buenos Aires, at the Palace in St. Moritz, at his own 28-room villa at Beaulieu on the Cóte d'Azur...
...among her best reporting. An early supporter of Eugene McCarthy, she switched to Robert Kennedy and tried to unite her friends in the two factions. "Because of preference for one or another of two men whose platforms were not very different," she wrote, "friends no longer spoke to friends. Gossip about who had switched to whom politically was suddenly as juicy as who was having an affair with whom. But less tolerant...
...later wrote in Six Crises, "who had proved during the fund crisis that he was a cool man under pressure, had excellent judgment, and was one to whom I could speak with complete freedom without any concern that what I might say would find its way into the Washington gossip mill...
...Moscow, as in other world capitals, the rumor was that the Soviet leaders in the Politburo disagreed over the invasion of Czechoslovakia. "The main Moscow gossip," writes Hardy, "concerns the division over the Czechoslovak invasion. Three out of eleven are said to have opposed...
...married only once-briefly, to Actor John Emery-but took a legion of lovers and gleefully admitted: "I'm as pure as the driven slush." Columnists were forever sniping at her and getting blasted right back. "Are you ever mistaken for a man on the phone?" Broadway Gossip Earl Wilson asked her. "No," she rasped. "Are you?" Yet some of her best lines were about herself. "They used to shoot Shirley Temple through gauze. They ought to shoot me through linoleum," she said, while making up for a movie late in her career. Jezebel was the image she reveled...