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Concession. In Detroit, William H. van Aspern, 73, and Ellen Anderson O'Brien Jones Davis, 94, got "sick & tired" of neighbors' gossip, finally decided to get married after living together 17 years...
Columnist Igor Cassini, who as Cholly Knickerbocker is Hearst's No. i know-it-all-&-tell-it-all on society, got scooped on a gossipy item involving his stylish wife, Austine Cassini, writer of society gossip for the Washington Times-Herald. In a rival paper, Cassini read a breathless, unconfirmed rumor that "Bootsie"-dubbed last year the Most Magnificent Doll Among American Newspaperwomen-had settled down in Reno to divorce...
...been in politics since he was 25. But politics has not been his only activity. He has had a radio station, Radio Ariel, over which many an Argentine and Paraguayan exile has broadcast. Every afternoon Luisito goes to the Café Montevideo on Avenida 18 Julio to gossip over coffee. He drives his car at high speed, likes to box. After hours, he takes his ease with his wife and three children at a small farm outside the capital...
Another Telegraph correspondent suggested that it was merely VIPS (the wartime phrase for Very Important Persons) spelled backwards. "With demobilization, the term came into civvy street [and] received its demob suit with all its original connotation-that of a person having a good time at the expense of others." Gossip Writer Charles Graves claimed: "My deep research into the source of the word shows that it was originally used colloquially by race-gangs [for] a shady character who lives by his wits, but without the physical or mental courage to show violence or turn burglar." A bookish reporter...
...grand coup of wooing & winning syndicating contracts from the New York Daily News's Joe Patterson and the Chicago Tribune's Bertie McCormick. On that day, June 1, Lolly Parsons arched her back but moved over on the fence. Hedda had become a major Hollywood gossip...