Word: crusher
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...wire services clucked and twittered like village matrons at a sewing circle. Was she or wasn't she? "Spokesmen" and "usually well-informed sources" said she was. Then, from Monaco's palace press service, came the crusher: a "formal and categorical denial" that Princess Grace was expecting a second child. Cause of the tizzy: Prince Rainier, continuing the battle royal with reporters that began before his wedding, censored some deceptively tumescent shots of Grace taken last month aboard the U.S.S. Forrestal...
Breaking the Bandwagon. After a ten-minute arm's length chat with Stevenson in Truman's Sheraton-Blackstone Hotel suite, Harry Truman held a press conference, and let go kersplat with his first great crusher of the week. "I will," he said delightedly, "let the people know for whom I stand before the convention meets." A newsman asked if Truman was just trying to baffle every one. Chortled Harry: "That is exactly right...
...Madrid Correspondent Camille Ci-anfarra, traveling aboard the Andrea Doria. "We ought to get some good cover age from Cianfarra," said Catledge. But the story never came. Sleeping in his cabin, Timesman Cianfarra, a veteran of more than 25 years, was killed instantly by the Stockholm's ice-crusher bow, along with his daughter...
...Home Ice-Crusher. The Waring Ice Jet, an attachment for the Waring Blendor that can crush a gallon of ice in a minute, will be put on the market soon by Dynamics Corp. of America. Price...
...fourth round Sam applied the crusher: a blazing 66 against 1953's Amateur Champion Gene Littler, Ted Kroll and Ed Oliver. The crusher gave Snead an insurmountable lead: 52 points to 18 for Runners-Up Gary Middlecoff, defending champion, and Jack Burke. On the final round, instead of relaxing, Snead shot a 65, lowest round of the tournament, and won by the biggest margin in the 16-year history of the Round Robin, beating Runner-Up Toski by 36 points...