Word: rumoring
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...Townsend took to hailing newsmen from his Renault Frégate on his way to the stables for his morning ride. "I say, chaps, are you trying to get hold of me?" One reporter finally suggested he could stop all this simply by issuing a denial of the romance rumor. Said Townsend, affable and imperturbable: "I know...
While the University of Michigan has always been proud of begin compared academically with Harvard this is only the second time that we have met them in an athletic endeavor. Rumor has it that the Harvard players carry copies of spinoga and Henry James in their green book bags in addition to a hockey stick...
Argentina's Minister of Interior summoned newsmen to his office last week and officially confirmed a red-hot rumor. It was true, said Minister Angel Gabriel Borlenghi, that the government of President Juan Perón had "intervened," i.e., taken over the governments of the provinces of Santa Fe, Santiago del Estero and Tucuman. Perón had summarily dismissed the governors, legislatures and all municipal authorities in the three provinces, and appointed three "interventors" with dictatorial powers, including authority to supervise the provincial courts...
Even Communists in Belgrade appeared stupefied by the mildness of the punishment, and soon the rumor was all over town that Tito himself had sent word to go easy on his old comrades-perhaps out of his own personal affection for associates of his guerrilla days, more likely because it fitted into the Marshal's desire to have the West think of him as a warmhearted chap beneath all those medals and all that bluster...
With new wage negotiations only two months off, the war of nerves is already underway. Wildcat strikes and work stoppages plague the auto industry. A rumor, apparently planted by the union, that both G.M. and Ford would settle for some sort of guaranteed annual wage before negotiations start, was spread by such scattered sources as Columnist Drew Pearson, Gossipist Leonard Lyons and the newsletter of Manhattan's Chemical Corn Exchange Bank. The rumor was vehemently denied by management, and G.M.'s Labor Negotiator Harry Anderson even hustled to Manhattan to straighten out the bank...