Word: rumoring
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Regardless of the elephants, the distances and other hurdles, our correspondents continue to report their news each week to keep the editors informed. Sometimes they have a tendency toward the laconic answer if a story they are asked to check turns out to be mere rumor. There was the time, for example, when British-born David Cole, our part-time correspondent in Northern Rhodesia, received a query from New York and replied: "There, old chap. I think you're a bit up the pole. Absolutely no truth in your notion, and I've been having a hearty laugh...
...during the latter iSoos. But the product of such dilutions of the earlier bloodstreams of Northern Europe surely cannot all have concentrated above the Mason-Dixon Line, and must have gravitated down as well as out and upward. On the other hand, miscegenation in the South was no mere rumor. The masters of the great plantations and farms, and their menfolk generally were not insusceptible to the charms of the better-favored females in the slave quarters. Were these by-blows all shipped to the North...
...count on Evie for the latest tidbits about the most-dropped names in town. Last week Evie let her readers in on something that had happened to Evie herself. She was about to go down the reception line at a White House party when she remembered an unpleasant rumor that had gone the rounds. Was it true, she asked Mamie Eisenhower's Secretary Mary Jane McCaffree, that there was a new ban against working reporters' going through the receiving line? Quite so, answered Mary Jane, and, in fact, they were never supposed...
Reasons for the big split were obscure, and there were a dozen different explanations. According to one rumor, Bonelli had cast covetous eyes on the governorship, but Publisher Norman Chandler, 54-year-old chief of the Chandler clan, thought that was going too far. Whatever the reasons for the falling out, the Chandlers drew first blood last October (TIME, Oct. 19) with a series of articles in their tabloid, the Los Angeles Mirror-denouncing Bonelli and his "saloon empire." Big Bill's board, charged the Mirror, displayed incredible laxity in freely handing out liquor licenses to racketeers and political...
...together on renewing a contract. It's a little like a divorce is sometimes-I don't know who called who what first. There has been an accumulation of small irritations, but I couldn't point to any one thing." What about the rumor that Godfrey was giving up smoking? Replied Stanton: "If he said that, it was probably as a joke. I can't believe Arthur would be that rude to a personal friend like Ben Few [Liggett & Myers president]. And there's nothing new about his smoking a pipe-he does it every...