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Back in Teheran again, he started work on the Mohammed Mossadeq cover story (TIME, June 4). One of his jobs was to check on doubtful stories that get back to the U.S. Among them: the false rumor that mysterious U.S. oil millionaires were dickering for spots in Iran's oil industry, if & when it were nationalized...
...story behind the rumor-shrouded resignation...
...When a rumor got around La Paz last week that the President was deep in a closed-door conference with the generals and colonels, paceños knew that something was up. At 3 a.m., weary reporters saw President Mamerto Urriolagoitia and two military aides hustle out of the palace, get into a car and drive away. Then army officers Banded out a batch of press releases, including a message from Urriolagoitia: "Despite my constant efforts to conduct the political struggle into channels of peace and tranquillity . . . our country is again faced with a dilemma . . . Accordingly, I hereby deliver...
...industry rumor was that RCA had developed a new-type color camera, or maybe it was a new tube. RCA executives kept mum, would only explain vaguely that, because of the pending court decision, "we just don't want to be active publicly at this time...
...open. Out strode the colonel's niece, 30-year-old Ruth McCormick Miller, editor of his Washington Times-Herald. Mad as a wet hen, she took the elevator to the lobby, hustled off to her suite in the Ambassador East Hotel. There Newshen "Bazy" confirmed a fast-spreading rumor: she had just had a "heated showdown-not loud but emphatic"-with Bertie McCormick. Furthermore, she was all washed up as boss of the Times-Herald...