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...weighs a strapping 185 Ibs. Two years ago Cooper was ordered to bed by his doctor with what seemed to be an alarming heart condition. It later turned out that the doctor's electrocardiograph and not Cooper's heart was faulty, but the untrue rumor that Cooper had heart trouble has persisted. He smokes a rare cigarette, drinks an occasional bourbon highball, and dresses soberly. He has a horror of loud ties, and when he is tempted to substitute one with a touch of color for his favorite dark blue knit, he sometimes appeals to Macomber to tell...
...switch under his desk.) Hickenlooper could not resist adding a comment born of ten years' experience in Washington: "I think it is ominous . . . when those who decry methods of insinuation and the blasting of characters and reputations on the part of others, themselves use such innuendo and unfounded rumor as the truth in their attempts to attack those whom they do not personally like and whom they would like personally to destroy...
Three months passed, and Turner said nothing more about the book. Then, in May, one of the College janitors, told McMillan that he had heard the professor had been dismissed. A cook for a local white family said she had heard a similar rumor...
Lundon's statement was in response to a rumor that Schine had been observed by several students at the Yale game. On that weekend, November 21, Schine was on leave from Fort Dix, N.J., to do Senate committee business. This weekend was included on the "black-and-white" chart of Schine's leaves submitted in testimony by the Army in the current hearings and protested as "phony" by Senator Joseph McCarthy...
When a reporter mentioned Indo-China, the President seized the opportunity to clear up something that had been bothering him: the Washington rumor that he and John Foster Dulles differed on U.S. policy in that unhappy country. Said the President: That was not so. If there was any detectable difference in their recent utterances, it must be because of language, not intent. Naturally, Ike continued, all of us want to save Indo-China, but no nation can be saved for the free world unless it wants to be saved. He did not think the free world ought to write...