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Legitimate newsmen debated whether the men who were intent on wrecking the conference were as dangerous as those who were determined to wisecrack about it. They heard Hedda Hopper cooing in a hotel lobby: "My dear, if this thing doesn't pick up pretty soon, it's going to be the dullest clambake ever held." They read Elsa Maxwell's astute comments on the Russians: "a bunch of magnificent he-men." They debated who was to blame-the officials who issued the credentials wholesale, or the newspapers that assigned the freaks...
Blue will feature "interpretive" broadcasts by Sumner Welles, newly hired as the network's "adviser on world peace," and full color reporting by Ben Hecht, Hedda Hopper, Orson Welles, and "other Hollywood personalities...
...Nazis also cluck haughtily over pictures of a U.S. Congressman playing a guitar on the Capitol steps, of Hedda Hopper hats, of American adolescents doing the Lindy Hop as samples of "degenerate" life in a democracy...
...Hedda Hopper, gossip-columnist, paid off by filling a day's column for her rival Sidney Skolsky...
Call the Celebrities. Hollywood fought glamor with glamor. The Hollywood-for-Dewey Committee had nice legs, a pretty wit and good lungs : Ginger Rogers, Hedda Hopper, Rosalind Russell, Cecil B. de Mille, Anne Baxter, Leo Carrillo and Adolphe Menjou. So did the Hollywood Committee of New Dealers: Rita Hayworth, Olivia de Havilland, Katharine Hepburn, Orson Welles, Harpo Marx, Lana Turner, Walter Huston, Fanny Brice...