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...Kansas City, where Novelist Harry Sinclair Lewis observed the clergy and evolved Elmer Gantry (TIME, March 14, 1927), Rev. Jesse E. Baker recently surprised his respectable Avondale Methodist Church congregation with a sermon defending a local widow who had been the subject of much moral gossip. Last week he surprised them further by marrying the widow, a Mrs. Stella Gibson...
...TIME'S editor losing his virility that he must print in Feb. 16 issue letters from readers calling attention to the five months Calles baby. As a cover-to-cover reader this is the first time that I have found that which smacks of gossip in your columns...
...insistent attempts of the daily newspapers to worm out definite statements on this affair have all proved unsuccessful. The papers might, at last, learn that announcements will be made impartially to all members of the press, when the time comes to make them. Importunate pressure and ill-timed gossip of this kind is an embarrassment to all concerned...
...what was then considered the height of impudence by heralding I he confinements of newsworthy women. STORK HOVERS would be the caption over the photograph of a cinemactor's wife. Seldom were other than stage or him folk and royalty labelled as prospective parents- until about 1927 when Gossip-Colyumist Walter Winchell began to set the pace with preobstetrical reports upon couples in every stratum of society. Last week, as casually as if it were mentioning the departure of a socialite for Palm Beach, Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis' polite New York Evening Post headlined: BIRTH OF TWINS EXPECTED...
...succeeded the late Mrs. Emma Mann-Vynne who. five years previously, had inherited control from the founder, her father, Col. William D'Alton Mann. Under the direction of the baldpated, snowy-whiskered, plug-hatted Colonel, the magazine had a stormy 30-year career as Society's gossip-peddler. The Colonel died in 1920, leaving an estate...