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Some weeks ago Gossip Walter Winchell announced in his syndicated column that Einstein was writing a book on physics "which you, you and you can understand." It is doubtful whether many of Columnist Winchell's "you's" will find The Evolution of Physics light reading. The Book-of-the-Month Club considered the manuscript at length, finally rejected it as a club selection, fearing an avalanche of returns from readers who would find it too difficult. Yet the U. S. publishers have turned out a first printing of 5,000 copies. Cambridge University Press, which is handling...
...first few weeks Hugo Black sat on the U. S. Supreme Court bench, Washington gossip reported Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes at a high pitch of exasperation because nervous Justice Black's rocking chair punctuated hearings with a high-pitched squeak, squeak. This week, when the Court convened after a two-week recess, Hugo Black's chair no longer squeaked and it speedily became apparent that harmony had been restored. For Chief Justice Hughes and a majority of his fellows, including Hugo Black, saw eye-to-eye on the year's most important case-the test...
...Warner publicity department, the fleeting points of similarity between Jezebel and Gone With the Wind were words to the wise. Before long Hollywood was buzzing with gossip that Warners were out to steal the wind from Producer Selznick's sails. Soon gossips had another theme...
...working editors. But de Kruif had plenty on his hands helping Franklin Roosevelt fight poliomyelitis, and Hemingway spent almost all of Ken's, eleven months' gestation visiting the war in Spain. Home from Spain and somewhat alarmed when friends pointed out to him that a Manhattan gossip sheetster had called Ken a "liberal-phoney," Hemingway asked Publisher Smart to explain in the first issue (on a page with Hemingway's story about Italian battalions in Spain) that Ernest Hemingway was a contributor, not an editor. By last week Ken's direction had largely devolved on Messrs...
Last month was a big one in Author De Voto's career. His publishers, Little, Brown, brought out a brief, uncritical biographical study by Garrett Mattingly.* The Saturday Review of Literature, confirming recent Manhattan literary gossip, announced his resignation "to give his time to writing and literary research." His successor: smiling, good-natured ex-managing editor of the Saturday Review, George Stevens...