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...year), Sam Rosenman had begun building the New Deal brain trust for his good friend Franklin Roosevelt. Later, he had had a hand in writing many an FDR speech. A shadowy figure, he had moved quietly in & out of Washington, never staying long enough for political gossip to get a good start...
...names. There was still no substantial talk of top-ranking war heroes like MacArthur, Eisenhower or Marshall. The men now discussed were mostly those who had competed for the nomination in 1944. But their positions had shifted; they were seen in new lights. It made for good political gossip...
...mayor of New York (Judge Jonah J. Goldstein) was slated for a decisive beating at the polls, which was not likely to enhance Tom Dewey's political prestige. Governor Dewey also had his own personal hurdle ahead: he must win re-election as governor next year. (Current gossip had Jim Farley as his Democratic opponent.) But if Tom Dewey won in 1946, he could be a strong contender for the 1948 presidential nomination. For one thing, he would have New York's huge block of delegates in his pocket...
...field was society gossip. Igor's most famous predecessor, the late Maury Henry Biddle Paul, made $100,000 a year out of writing, in his own brand of pink perfume, about the half-world of Manhattan's cafe society for 60 U.S. papers. Igor Cassini hopes to do even better: he will concentrate on what he thinks is the International Smart Set; his ambition is worldwide syndication...
...Oppenheimer halfheartedly supported the Administration's May-Johnson bill, but insisted that its concept of total control should not be the "pattern for the future." Some enforced secrecy was obviously necessary, he said. But he added: "The gossip of scientists who get together and chew the rag is the lifeblood of physics...