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Underlying the gossip were a few chunks of solid fact. The running feud between Johnson and State Secretary Dean Acheson (TIME, Sept. 11) had become so bitter that defense planning was being hampered, and no one seemed to be able to get it going smoothly. Strictly as a family affair, Harry Truman was reportedly beginning to see the quarrel as an either/or proposition; in such a situation, once recognized, there was no doubt which one would have to go. It would be Louis Johnson...
...world today cannot keep a happy equilibrium with my gossip and the atom bomb," announced Veteran Telltale Elsa Maxwell, who had decided to give up her column for good. "What is gossip after all but unkind things said, usually not even based on fact or the truth? I can't add all that trouble to those that already exist, so I have taken up my music [she used to play the violin], my best old, old friends and the quiet peace of quiet living...
...hoped to perk up many of the 1,000.slowly expiring small unaffiliated stations of the U.S. with a daily infusion of ten hours of "live" and recorded shows. Hoping for a network of 350 stations (and needing 200 to break even), Progressive promised a familiar formula: soap operas, Hollywood gossip, a homespun philosopher named Cottonseed Clark, and such singers as Mel Torme and Connie Haines...
...office announced that U.A. had been sold. The buyer was a syndicate "of Eastern investors," whose front man was Paul V. McNutt, ex-U.S. High Commissioner to the Philippines and former chairman of the War Manpower Commission. Neither McNutt, Mary or Charlie would disclose the terms, but Hollywood gossip was that McNutt & friends: 1) had agreed to pay some $5,000,000 for the company; 2) hoped to produce films on their own; and 3) were dickering to hire independent Producer Stanley (The Men) Kramer (see CINEMA) to boss production...
Died. Elsie de Wolfe Mendl (Lady Mendl), eightyish, mauve-decade Broadway actress (who numbered Ethel Barrymore among her understudies), haute monde interior decorator, international-set partygiver; in Versailles, France. She married Sir Charles Mendl after a long spinsterhood, lived into a fabulously sprightly old age, delighted gossip columnists with handstands at parties and hair dyes ranging from pink to vivid green...