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Meanwhile, people were inquiring solicitously about her health. "Naturally," she chirped in her column, "I felt rather flattered. . . . Then some kind friends enlightened me. . . . The gossip in Washington had been that 1) I was having a nervous breakdown, 2) I was dying of cancer and 3) I was about to get married! Somehow or other these things do not go very well together, and though I realize that my age might give rise to the first two, it certainly should preclude the last...
...bringing less and less unless they patronize the black market. Reason: prices will go up to counteract the fall in value of local currency. Only in Switzerland will the tourist escape that danger. But there he may have to face another which will have the same effect. There was gossip that Switzerland would revalue its franc, raising it from 23.40 U.S. cents to 30 cents. This would automatically boost prices to tourists nearly...
Dadswell's roving is the current phase of an old restlessness. He was 16 when he broke in as a columnist ("Village Gossip by the Boy Reporter") on the old Chicago American. Two years later he scooped the U.S. press when he interviewed Bandit Pancho Villa in Mexico. Since then, on a dozen different papers, he has been in every newspaper slot from reporter to publisher-editor, with time out as photographer, newsreel cameraman, and front man for circuses...
There was no truth, said both sides, to gossip that T.W.A. was going to sell out to Pan American Airways. But it was true that T.W.A. was sounding out the RFC and private banks for a whopping loan...
...afternoon papers about Chip Gannon in particular and the Harvard football team in general, both of which met with speedy and heated denials from the persons concerned, are merely further exhibition of Hub sports writing that could be labelled most generously as "colorful." A more accurate appellation might be 'gossip-mongering," but that's not a pretty phrase...