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City rooms of western newspapers clacked with rumors about John and Anna Boettiger. Some rumors: they would go into business against their old employer, Hearst, in Seattle; they were dickering in Portland with Marshall Field money; Field would stake them in San Diego. Last week the big gossip anticlimaxed into a small fact. Franklin Roosevelt's rangy daughter and her strapping husband had bought the Phoenix (Ariz.) Shopping News, an advertising throwaway. The reported price: $15,000 (theirs, not Field...
Just for the asking, Cedric Malcolm Adams can get almost anything in Minnesota. As the Northwest's favorite radio and press gossip, he has found homes for 50,000 minnows, 76,000 other animal, vegetable and mineral objects including baby alligators, pianos, crutches, white mice, a skunk, an artificial leg and four corsets. Once he asked his fans to help a widow who had lost her $37 income-tax payment. More than 57,000 responded, each mailing a penny to Cedric. Last week, the Pied Piper casually asked his public for a solution to the nylon shortage...
...role as Hearst's "Cholly Knickerbocker," pompadoured Society Gossip Igor Loiewski-Cassini (TIME, Nov. 5) last week started a series of profiles on New York social registerites. To prepare himself, he boned up on the Astor clan by reading Dixon Wecter's scholarly Saga of American Society. When it came time to share his new-found knowledge with his readers, Gossip Cassini found himself full of his reading. Samples...
...Profits (as indicated by changes in the company's surplus account) rose to an average $24,000,000 a year, But there was new trouble. Hobbled by 773 strikes in four and a half years, the efficiency of Ford workers dropped some 34%, far more, according to trade gossip, than any other auto com pany. As long as Uncle Sam paid the bills, the company could swim. In peace this labor sabotage was enough to sink...
Sometimes Lillian could glimpse the notorious "Widder Woman," dressed only in corset and drawers, prancing drunkenly to the pawnshop with the blanket she had stripped from her bastard son, who was dying of consumption. Sometimes Lillian could hear Red, Lem, Butch and Shorty Clapp exchanging local gossip. Others whom Lillian wondered about include: Lawyer Pettigrew, an ambitious politician who had seduced pretty Meg Taylor in the underbrush; Schoolmarm Fisher, who had a lurid mother complex; Rufe Albright, who frolicked in the barn with fat Fanny Rhimer; and precocious young Gregory Beamer, who persuaded Lillian's adolescent sister to bathe...