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After some years in which most responsible American newspapers had moved away from classic social tat* tletaling, gossip columnists are returning. Even the Washington Post and Washington Star have recently revived the old social gossip columns. These superb newspapers, like many others, seem to be reflecting a changing national mood, moving in now with the end of those mindbending years of Vietnam and Watergate.
It causes us here at this newspaper at least to examine this new “gossip happening” from the standpoint of this community and this newspaper’s policies.
We have been over the years and are today graced in these Virginia foothills by the presence in our midst of powerful and glamorous national personalities—
There have been political figures such as Presidents Monroe and Kennedy; military heroes from the dashing Mosby to Generals George Patton, Billy Mitchell and George Catlett Marshall. There have been stars from the arts and Hollywood, from Adele Astaire, Arthur Godfrey, Grace Kelly and Tab Hunter to Elizabeth Taylor Warner. Legions of industrial moguls have come and gone, or live among us here quietly today and call it “home”, if only a weekend retreat for many commuting here from the heavy pressures of their work.
There are many reasons why such people have chosen to make their homes around here, not at all the least of which is a way of life and a certain privacy traditionally granted them by their neighbors, a quality generally
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