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...spryest baseball crowd in the country are the oldsters who sit in the winter sun at Waterfront Park, St. Petersburg, Fla. Ordinarily at this time of year the benches crackle with gossip about the newly arrived Yankees and Cardinals, who have trained at St. Pete for many a spring. This year, with big-league ball clubs warming up in their own backyards, St. Pete's oldsters must be content with their own ball clubs: the Kubs and Kids...
Conrad liked best to talk about people. "I do not mean gossip . . . he liked to probe the psychology of people, known or even unknown to him, just as he liked best to read diaries and memoirs, infinitely more than fiction or history." He had "the Slav love for long, intimate talk." They used to sit by the fire "until 2 or 3 in the morning, sipping whiskey, which he always took with plain water, advising me never to take soda, as it hardens arteries...
Upshot of Captain Fuller's plea is a moving radio program called Tell It to the Marines beamed for 15 minutes, five times a week, to all the South Pacific. In addition to news, tunes and scuttlebutt (gossip), the Marines are reached direct with messages from home. Samples...
...York Daily Mirror is a rowdy tabloid which flavors its journalism with-gossip, horse-race news, a backfence approach to divorce-case testimony. But last week, to the editorial column of the Daily Mirror, war brought the season's best homily...
...trouble is that the programs mentioned below are on sustaining, and the local stations seemed to be terrified of any network program that lacks a sponsor. They'll shove in, instead, something else unsponsored, like "recorded interludes," movie gossip, or E. B. Rideout. If they sell the time, all well and good, but too often a perfectly good program will be shoved off the air at the drop of a whim. It isn't only swing music that suffers, either...