Word: rumoring
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Once again, Connie (Cornelius McGillicuddy) Mack, 87, beginning his 50th year as manager of the Philadelphia Athletics, denied the annual rumor that he would retire at the end of the season: "It's-it's preposterous...
...irate Englishman wrote to the London Times protesting a rumor of the possible destruction of St. George's Church in Gravesend, where Pocahontas, savior of Captain John Smith and wife of John Rolfe, has been buried for more than 330 years: "When we are . . . doing our utmost to attract American visitors it seems singularly shortsighted to destroy a building which . . . [could] draw them to Gravesend in large numbers...
...seventh-floor office in the Chicago Sun-Times plant, Publisher Marshall Field, Assistant Publisher Marshall Field Jr. and other top brass met last week with a 22-man emergency committee of the Sun-Times Newspaper Guild unit. The committee spokesman told Publisher Field that the Guild had heard rumors of an impending bloodletting, wanted to get the bad news straight from the surgeon himself. Replied urbane Publisher Field: it was no mere rumor. His money-losing, round-the-clock Sun-Times was an "economic impossibility," so he was planning to drop the evening editions and turn it into a morning...
...been reported in the public prints. For the benefit of those who may not rejoice that I have departed on the last Great Expedition, I repeat my words as reported in TIME two years ago: "I'm a tough old bird. The next time, it will be a rumor...
This week, however, one man was missing from the anniversary dinner. Seventy-year-old John Erskine, who suffered a stroke last fall, was gravely ill at home. "A good teacher is so rare," he once wrote, "that the rumor of him spreads with the speed of scandal." After 30 years, with or without him, John Erskine's scandal was still going strong...