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...basic requirement that Government employment must be "clearly consistent with the interests of national security" is open to considerable question. It could-and probably has been-interpreted to mean that hearsay, malicious gossip and unsupported accusations constitute doubts that must be resolved in favor of the Government...
...book often has the pleasant, ungirdled quality of small-town gossip, is never bitter or doctrinaire about the South. It also manages to maintain a bit of suspense about the Wales-Greene mystery, though most of it gets lost in such a welter of flashbacks that even Cinema-Scope will have trouble straightening things out. The novel's outstanding quality is its cozy cousinship with a major American literary pattern-the novel of homecoming, of the haunting tie between small and big town. A few of the other cousins in this huge family, in addition to Marquand...
Generations of Americans have clustered about her knees to hear her stories; even when she was younger, Kathleen Norris sounded like Grandmother, recalling the gossip and the gallants of her girlhood. Between her first novel, Mother (1911), which sold an estimated 4.500,000 copies, and her latest (No. 78), so many of her books were sold that all count was lost. Novelist Norris could not even keep track of the number of her novels bought by the movies (at least 23, including My Best Girl and Wife for Sale). In her 78 novels she has written, by her estimate, about...
...like that sort of thing much," snorts father Kelly. "I'd like to see Grace married. These people in Hollywood think marriage is like a game of musical chairs." When the gossips reported that Ray Milland was leaving his wife for Grace, mother Kelly hustled out to California to set things straight. Milland insists that he only took her to dinner once; Grace says nothing. Most recently Grace's escort has been Dress Designer Oleg Cassini, one time husband of Gene Tierney and professional man-about-ladies. The Kellys deplore all such gossip-column romances...
...Echelon Job. Producer-Director Fielder Cook gave Patterns just the proper elaboration of office gossip, politics and detail and, as often happens in a soundly built play, all the actors turned in superlative jobs. Top honors went to chunky Ed Begley, one of TV's most valuable utility actors, who brought to his role of a businessman hagridden both by his boss and his ulcer a fine pitch of stubborn and despairing dignity...