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...life-his relations with "Stella"' and "Vanessa"'- has always been a mystery, is not cleared up by Van Doren. Two women were in love with Swift all their lives; he married nobody. Van Doren states the difficulties, then begs the question. "He may have been impotent, gossip suggests . . . . he may have had syphilis . . . he may . . . have married Stella privately. . . . But all these arguments ... are ... as good as another. Not one of them is as simple and sufficient as the conclusion that Swift . . . was only, in marriage as in other matters, extraordinary...
...been "mentioned" for more different jobs under the Hoover Administration than any other friend of the President. He was violently speculated upon for almost every post in the Cabinet before inauguration. Each time President Hoover named a new commission, Mr. Robinson's name bobbed up in White House gossip as a leading candidate for membership. But, somehow, Mr. Robinson never seemed able to swing into a niche. Last week, however, the President did fit him neatly into the National Drought Commission...
...whose showgirl fiancée had gone to Hollywood. The girl had broken her promise of marriage, refused to return the doctor's gift of jewelry, worth $18,000. Names were omitted but the girl was advised to "do the right thing and save a lot of unnecessary scandal and gossip . . . involving big men." Last week Zit's proudly announced that Catherine Moylan, formerly of the Ziegfeld Follies, had returned the jewelry to Dr. Morton I. Berson, that "releases were signed ... all letters destroyed...
...Still persistent last week was the autastic rumor that Alfonse ("Scarface") Capone rules the Tom Thumb trade. A likely explanation was that Colyumist Walter Winchell, broadcasting gossip, once said something about as follows: "Tom Thumb Golf is the newest racket; first thing we know Al Capone will have grifted into...
Famed Matador Sidney Franklin (ne Frumkin) of Brooklyn has had a bad season. Many times he has been tossed, (see cut), never seriously gored. Madrid cafe gossip holds that he is about through, that few impresarios are offering him contracts...