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When Hollywood's world-famed Gossip Columnist Louella O. (for Oettinger) Parsons (from her first husband) turned authoress and brought forth her autobiography, The Gay Illiterate (Doubleday. Doran; $2), her wise publishers jumped their publication date and rushed a few carloads of the remarkable volume to Hollywood's bookstores in time for the Christmas rout. The book sold like...
...famed rival Hedda Hopper, all probably outcirculate her. But she gets a minimum 2,000 fan letters a week, and in lush seasons 5,000. Her batting average on scoops is .800, a record which no other journalist living or dead has remotely approached. Her appetite for gossip is insatiable, her power through gossip imperial...
...Lose. When Louella goes to the races, she makes sure of a happy afternoon by betting on every horse that starts. At her generous buffets she never bothers to fill her own plate, but wanders among her guests, helping herself from anybody's plate that comes handy. In gossip-gathering she uses the same techniques. The men who run the studios and hand out the jobs read her faithfully and as faithfully react. (One screen writer who managed to get mentioned three times in Louella's column found himself abruptly raised from $500 a week...
...firecracker-chain of enthusiasms which would exhaust less magnificent mortals. For Dr. Martin, until malaria (contracted in Australia) returned him from the Army last spring, was one of the most happily energetic men in a community unexcelled, in certain fields, for tirelessness. And Louella, in giddiness as in gossip, is a mighty fortress...
...Petroleum Boss Harold Ickes (who is supposed to coordinate all Government oil activities) heard about Canol through Washington gossip. He found Canol "well-nigh fantastic." He told General Somervell that one U.S. tanker, making four trips, could supply the Alaska Highway with as much aviation gas as the Army's whole costly drilling-piping-refining project. General Somervell was not impressed...