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...some 25 other newspapers, sent a help-wanted letter to the dean of Northwestern University's School of Journalism, Kenneth E. Olson. Excerpts from his waggish call for the perfect legman: "I want a combination copy boy, telephone answerer, coffee maker ... an eavesdropper and Peeping Tom, a gossip and preferably a liar ... At the end of the [Chicago] convention he is finished, through, his career terminated and any attempt at blackmail will be strenuously resisted ... He is the patsy and I want him never to forget it. I'm getting mad at him already . . ." Last week Steinbeck picked...
Looking every inch the dowager, aging (43) Five & Dime Heiress Barbara Hutton and her sixth husband, ex-Tennistar Baron Gottfried von Cramm, turned out for a France v. West Germany tennis match, a regional Davis Cup competition in Duisburg, West Germany. Despite gossip that No. 6 is also bound for the rocks, unsmiling Barbara appeared to be neither rollicking nor rifting with jobless Von Cramm...
Nobody in Britain could throw a better binge than Lady Docker, whose democratic ways and goldplated, zebra-lined Daimler motorcars have long been the solid staples of London's gossip columns. Unfortunately for London partygoers, however, just as Norah's plans were crystallizing last week, the Daimler people fired her husband (see BUSINESS), and Norah moodily canceled her party. "How could they do it?" she said of her husband's employers, a question that echoed the sentiments of many a party girl toward Britain's spoilsports. As Debutante Felicity Drew, guest of honor at the Thames...
...Palmoticeva Street Milovan Djilas (with or without British Socialism's help) appeared safe for the moment. But Belgrade's gossip, neither confirmed nor denied by the political police, probably as a means of further demoralizing their victim, has it that a special dossier of Djilas' "crimes" is being prepared, and that the police have been doing a lot of talking to Djilas' old friend, onetime Partisan Hero (and Tito Biographer) Vladimir Dedijer...
...last weeks of spring museum men descend in droves on Manhattan to tour the galleries, see what their colleagues are buying and pick up the latest gossip before the summer doldrums set in. To help them out, Manhattan galleries this week are busy staging their own "season survey" and "new discoveries" shows. In addition, the Modern Museum is showing its "Twelve Americans" of the year,* and two galleries are displaying the current choices and future bets of 19 museum directors and curators. The whole lavish display points up a new trend in the market place of modern art: since...