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...have to. At 61, Mammy-Man Jolson was in the chips. Two years ago he was sick, and though not broke, afraid that he soon might be. He had developed an abscessed lung while entertaining troops overseas, and ended up in a Los Angeles hospital. When he recovered, Hollywood Gossip Sidney Skolsky, who had decided to film Jolson's life, had Al sing the sound track while young Larry Parks impersonated him on the screen (TIME, Oct. 7). Jolson estimates that his half-share of The Jolson Story profits will be $3,500,000 (before taxes...
...veteran who will almost certainly play his role again is tangle-haired Hans Zwink-Oberammergau's twinkling-eyed Judas. He is also Oberammergau's most unpopular man. Villagers resent Zwink's sense of humor and his philosophical detachment, gossip that he is touched in the head. But his most objectionable symptom seems to be his longtime anti-Naziism. When Hitler took over Germany in 1934 Zwink retired from village life and kept to his house, painting bad portraits and canvases of church interiors. A calendar portrait of Franklin Roosevelt hung on his wall throughout...
...author of this article had in mind to entertain Americans, he certainly met his aim. Magazines such as TIME are supposed to educate people rather than to relate "gossip"-this is the word used by the author-especially as gossip means lack of truth...
...TIME occasionally finds gossip informative and information entertaining...
Probably no newspaperman in history, and certainly no other gossip, has ever sold his words so dearly as Walter Winchell. Last week it was loudly proclaimed that the inflated price of his treetop chatter might go even higher...