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...harried British grew restive. U. S. correspondents grew cantankerous. It was absurd, they said, for the British censorship to try to hide the names of cities newly blasted by the Luftwafle, leaving citizens dependent upon German communiqués to confirm what their own eyes or common gossip knew quite well. Contributing to a concerted outburst of U. S. sarcasm, the Chicago Daily News correspondent, Robert J. Casey, wrote...
...program was a streamlined assistant secretary, blonde and blue-eyed Miss Virginia Hoagland. To attract their wives as well as the younger instructors themselves, the women's suite on the second floor was refurbished. It took very little encouragement for this to become the bridge, mah jong, and gossip center of Cambridge. In return the coeds each week give some professor a chance to lecture uninterruptedly not only his own missus but his colleagues' wives as well...
...most of the talk naturally concerned Japan. Admiral Thomas Charles Hart, Commander in Chief of the Asiatic Fleet, had decided to evacuate 2,000 Navy wives from the Philippines. He had said, diplomatically, that their husbands would be on patrol duty a great deal. And jittery gossip went around Manila concerning the U. S. Army court-martial of brown, good-looking little Rufo Romero...
Used to their comparative anonymity, cameramen lead the most normal lives of Hollywood's high-salaried citizens, rarely appear in the gossip columns or at Goldwyn, Mayer or Zanuck parties. They own houses, raise families. Professionally, they are tied in a union as exclusive as a London club, the American Society of Cinematographers, which, until its recent application for an A. F. of L. charter, had no truck with national affiliations. It costs $100 to join, holds a closed-shop contract with all major studios...
...Among magazines, TIME, LIFE and FORTUNE are"too vital"to be"analyzed." Nevertheless Howe gives a short chapter to them, larded with numerous gossip-begotten errors of detail but closer to the truth than most accounts. Astonishing remark: that because Mr. and Mrs. Henry R. Luce were in the Low Countries in the spring of 1940, "the editorial policy of TIME promptly underwent a sea change...