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...Franklin Roosevelt's acceptance speech, he pointed a finger of reproach at the "one exception," the only man who had refused to help him in his program for national defense. Who was the man? Gossip sizzled. The President would not tell. Washington wisemen thought it must have been Alf Landon, who had reportedly turned down a Cabinet job when the President refused to commit himself on Term...
Last week, checking on gossip (see p. 44), John C. O'Brien of the Philadelphia Inquirer suddenly asked at the President's press conference if the man were Roy Howard, boss of Scripps-Howard newspapers and former head of United Press. Smiling, spreading his hands, Mr. Roosevelt responded that, like "Georgie da Wash," he could not tell a lie. It was indeed Mr. Howard to whom he had referred...
...Great McGinty (Paramount). For weeks Hollywood has been aware that Paramount was readying a picture which, despite a small budget, a green director and an unimpressive cast, would be one of the major surprises of the year. Gossip columnists and other hinters had taken some edge from the surprise by the time The Great McGinty was released last week. It was nevertheless a great show...
Much closer to Franklin Roosevelt are the men to whom he turns for simple fellowship. The President knows that what he tells safe, sound Henry ("Henny Penny") Morgenthau will not pop out in some gossip column the next morning; for that reason, the Secretary of the Treasury rates higher as a friend than as a policy-making official. New York's Appeals Court Judge Sam Rosenman, a Roosevelt crony since 1929, is half friend, half counselor: he may arrive with the rough manuscript of a Presidential speech, stay to gossip about old times in Albany, or to ease some...
...darkened Europe), PM carries as many as 14 pages of maps and pictures. Without advertising, fiction or advice to the lovelorn, PM gives some ten and a half pages a day to human-interest stories, features, statistical tables. Chief innovation: shopping and radio guides, omission of comics, columnists, nightclub gossip...