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...week, Maine's Senator Margaret Chase Smith writes a syndicated over-the-back-fence news report for 40-odd papers on what she is doing down in Washington. Besides discussing her serious business, such as investigating ammunition shortages, she lets the folks in on odd bits of personal gossip, e.g., how capital busybodies have tried to match-make Widow Smith with Georgia's Senator Richard B. Russell, one of the capital's more eligible bachelors...
...crush of people at the city hall of Schoneberg borough stood peasant women and workers from as far as Thuringia, 125 miles away. In a rumble of gossip they waited for their packages. "Where is the food from?" a woman asked. "Vom West en," someone replied. "Von Eisenhower," another corrected...
...were married, although Baker was no longer a broker but a corporal in the U.S. Army. When Tomorrow the World closed, Shirley camp-followed her husband through the South until 1945, then returned to Manhattan for her first musical, Hollywood Pinafore, in which she played the part of a gossip columnist called Louhedda Hopsons. During the war years, Shirley, who is an expert dancer, cut many a rug at the Stage Door Canteen...
...matter requiring the approval of the Queen, the government and the Church of England-had nothing to do with it. "Such a matter . . . has never come before the cabinet." said he, "and I think I am voicing the opinion of all members when I say that . . . deplorable speculation and gossip [should be] brought...
Steadfast Devotion. The Chancellor hoped in vain. The gossip grew even louder (it has assumed "the shape of scandal," protested the stately London Times). And it seemed likely to continue for months to come. The latest word is that the Queen, the Queen Mother and Margaret herself have agreed to do nothing until the Queen and Philip return from a visit to Australia next May. The royal family apparently hopes that by then Margaret's ardor for Airman Townsend-now neatly isolated in an air attache's job in Brussels -will have cooled. Margaret apparently hopes that...