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Three Aces. In England, France and Poland Franklin Roosevelt last week had three Ambassadors who were doing an unusually good job. And the other two were extraordinary foils to rough-&-ready Joe Kennedy. In Paris William Bullitt, onetime Philadelphia socialite, dilettante left-winger, champagne-gossip of Europe, consistent Hitler alarmist, has the greater fund of pre-War post-War knowledge, has long been the "closest" to Roosevelt. In Poland, ducking German bombs* was Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, another rich young (42) Philadelphian, who had turned serious diplomat...
Although the British censor passed several conflicting reports on this affair (see p. 25), a later "official report" set the gossip straight. A German squadron had indeed started over Chatham. Home fighters had indeed gone up. But so prompt were they, so excited their brother gunners below, that when they returned (after scaring off the German eagles) their own guns powed them. One British pilot crashed dead...
...almost a year bright little Sidney Skolsky has been a columnist without a column. A onetime Earl Carroll press-agent and Broadway gossip, Skolsky went to Hollywood for the New York Daily News in 1934, quit three years later when he was ordered back to New York. He worked for a while for King Features Syndicate, but he and Louella Parsons disagreed on whether Garbo would marry Stokowski (Skolsky was right) and that got him in bad with Hearst. Since the fall of 1938 "the little black mouse" has been a familiar sight in Hollywood studios and night clubs...
...overflowed. It was good sport to salute friends with "Heil Stalin," and when some young blades rang the doorbell of the Soviet Embassy, shouted "Heil Moscow" and ran away, that was very funny too. In a midtown Bierstube, a band struck up the Communist Internationale and everybody stood up. Gossip even got around that that great German Communist, Ernst Thalmann, who once polled three times as many votes as the Führer himself, was to be released from a concentration camp. Along the Wilhelmstrasse, knowing officials bet 20 bottles of champagne to one there would...
...Prominently posed with the President for news and newsreel pictures were Franklin D. Jr. & Ethel du Pont Roosevelt, who, with two young friends, were cruising just off Campobello. Gossip columnists took this as renewed notice that the Franklin D. Jrs. are not phphpht as gossiped...