61.   The option of passing the crown directly to his son, a staple of gossip columns, is unthinkable for someone of his training.

62.   The New York Observer, an effete, snide weekly, just catalogued the frequency of folks mentioned in the NYC gossip columns.

63.   The overwhelming majority of hockey players are not exactly burning up the gossip columns.

64.   Their focus seems to be more on brand-name authors who will land on best-seller lists as surely as Leonardo DiCaprio will wind up bold-faced in gossip columns.

65.   There are enough of these well-known wannabe politicians running for office to fuel a gossip column.

66.   There has been a juicy commerce in the names of celebrity presenters this past week in the gossip columns and the fashion industry.

67.   They are pinups for audiences made fashion-hungry by television, magazines and gossip columns.

68.   Those issues were heightened by an unusual report in the Page Six gossip column of The New York Post, which implied there were disagreements between Assumma and Greenlees.

69.   Unlike the more glittery Stephanopoulos, with whom she shares a Greek heritage, Mathews is unlikely to make it into the gossip columns.