Word: spreads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story had made the rounds in Rome, where newspapers first printed it in August. Hedda Hopper gingerly slipped it into her gossip column last month as a rumor, and Hollywood had buzzed with it ever since. But last week, when Columnist Louella Parsons spread it as fact all over the front pages of the Hearst papers, a nation of moviegoers gawked. Screamed Hearst's Los Angeles Examiner across eight columns: INGRID BERGMAN BABY DUE IN 3 MONTHS IN ROME...
Today, after 25 years, W.P.'s Webster Publishing Co. of St. Louis is at the top of the U.S. speller business and his idea has spread. Other publishers have long since begun turning out workbooks like Johnson's. Last week, at W.P.'s silver anniversary banquet, President Robie D. Marriner of the American Textbook Publishers Institute called the Johnson workbook "as significant as any contribution of teacher training itself during the last 25 years." To W.P., it was significant for another reason: it just went to show, he told banqueters, that a man can start with...
...Roger A. Harvey, in charge of Hotchkiss' treatment, will not say that the patient has been cured until five years have passed without a recurrence of the growth. But no similar deep-seated growth, beginning to spread to the lymph glands, has ever before yielded so dramatically to any nonsurgical type of treatment...
...Whitaker and his copper-haired business partner-wife, Leone Baxter, who were hired last February at $100,000 a year to give the medical profession's account of itself to the U.S. public. Whitaker & Baxter reported on what they had done since "the virus of socialized medicine had spread from decadent Europe and taken deep root here...
Agitation for the elimination of loyalty oath requirements for Navy ROTC students spread Saturday afternoon when representatives of five Harvard organizations decided to recommend to their respective groups that they band together for both local and nation-wide action...