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...buzzed with rumors. The town of ornately painted, deep-eaved houses where G.I.s stroll, lounge and (officially) do not fraternize is Oberammergau, world-famed for its 300-year-old Passion Play. Of Oberammergau's 2,300 inhabitants, 700 are the saints, angels and Nazarenes of the awesome drama. Gossip wondered whether there would be a presentation of the Passion next year. Ticking off the names of former Pharisees and Apostles, citizens canvassed the possibilities the war had left...
...hall-room boy in a Ritz stagline, was pushed into the position not only of spokesman for the time but of the typical product." Actresses whom he had worshipped from afar now eagerly lunched at his apartment. When he stepped into a public fountain in the small hours, the gossip columns turned the splash into a tidal wave. The morning after a mild argument with a cop, he read: "Fitzgerald Knocks Officer This Side of Paradise." It was a life which passed incessantly "through strange doors into strange apartments, with intermittent swings in taxis through the soft nights. . . . We were...
...André Respond, anxious to hush up local gossip about Edda's high living, told the press: "Rumors that she escaped one night after her father's death and returned to the clinic intoxicated are absolutely untrue. Nevertheless, Madame Ciano occasionally does behave in a rather bizarre way. For instance, she likes to walk around barefoot like a gipsy and occasionally at night she will jump from her window into the garden for a stroll in the park and forest...
Rudyard Kipling); of a heart attack; in Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire. In general agreement with Queen Mary on both morals and hats, she kept a firm, wifely hand in her husband's career (gossip credited her with much influence in forcing the abdication of Edward VIII...
With other old-school newspapermen, I have long resented the encroachment of "gossip columnists, hatchetmen, trained seals and freaks." . . . Every newspaperman is primarily and essentially a reporter. When he leaves facts to soar into the realm of rumor and gossip, he abandons his basic job and primary principle: accurate reporting of the news...