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Contents were snob-appeal who-was-seen-with-whom-where-when articles and pictures, fashion gossip, etc., and a calendar listing events in Eastern cities...
...family life, it is probably closer to the U. S. common denominator than Our Town or Life with Father. Much more of this life is skim milk or spilt milk than cream. It is a chronicle of vanishing dreams and growing regrets, of crotchets and quirks, affection and annoyance, gossip and eavesdropping, small skeletons in large closets. It fails to be drab because, at 70, its people are still kicking their heels, raising their voices, cocking their ears. They talk ridiculous bromides, but with passion ; they make absurd gestures, but with feeling. They are for the most part real...
...lunch she persuaded the editor of La Petite Gironde to let her write some articles. Intimate as the bedchamber anecdotes of a gossip columnist, they soon caught on. Before long, Tabouis became foreign news editor of L'Oeuvre, anemic liberal organ of the Radical-Socialist Party. Pale, gaunt-faced Tabouis does her work at home, spends 18 hours a day in her glittering Chinese apartment, calling Embassies in London, Rome, the Balkans, studiously writing down whatever her informants tell...
...Curtiss fighters, which hit a top speed of around 330 m.p.h., Messerschmitts with their long, flat, square-tipped wings have been proved lacking in maneuverability and rate of climb. But Willy Messerschmitt remains an ace name in Naziland. It would be news indeed if he fled his country, as gossip in Europe last week said he had, placing him in The Netherlands...
...this gossip the Berlin radio retorted specifically, invited skeptics to telephone Willy Messerschmitt at his Augsburg home. One reporter who did so was Beach Conger, correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, whom the Nazis squeezed out of Berlin last fortnight because he would not retract a dispatch picturing Adolf Hitler and his High Command at odds about invading The Netherlands. Mr. Conger and a British reporter named Geoffrey Cox telephoned Willy Messerschmitt from Amsterdam. The man who answered insisted he was the famed planemaker. "I haven't been out of Germany since the war started," he said...