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...President doing to get U.S. supplies to Britain? He was unquestionably making available as many ships as the U.S. could provide (see p. 75). But what was being done to insure the safe passage of those ships across the Atlantic? Last week the vast mass of inquiry, advice, speculation, gossip, rumor, on the part of pundits and editors boiled down to a series of questions and answers, with more questions than answers...
...Actual blackmail for political ends by gathering discreditable information about the public and private lives of notables. "It is perfectly true that the Nazi political services comb the gossip columns . . . and a sterling anti-Nazi gossiper like Walter Winchell would probably be horrified if he knew the strategic uses to which some of his little scoops might...
Once in the fold, she acquires an aging socialite (Ian Hunter), a plush Park Avenue apartment, seven diamond bracelets, six fur coats, and the eye of the gossip columnists. In the end she dies of a brandy heart-but not before she has slunk, semiclad, through sumptuous extravaganzas that make the old Ziegfeld Follies look like the East Orange Passion Play...
...royal family. A prince who had been a member of the royal household told Whitaker: "The King is worse than gaga. He is a cynical, selfish, dirty old man. He cares nothing for Italy or the Italian people, but only for his own throne." Servants now repeat society gossip about the effeminacy of the Prince of Piedmont...
...Holmes wrote his last letter and last literary opinion to Pollock. Then to their 57-year-old correspondence he set this last line: "Is this enough of my gossip...