Word: innuendo
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...also feel that your reference to Northwest Airlines in the story is wholly unjustified. In cases of this kind why don't you just report the crash and not by innuendo damage equipment which is giving millions of miles of satisfactory service every day all over the world...
...TIME intended no innuendo, meant just what it said: that the Braniff Airways crash (a Douglas plane) and the Northwest Airlines crash (a Lockheed) were outstanding cases of mechanical failure...
Ventriloquism was never a radio art. It still isn't. But thoroughly part of radio art is Bergen's clever line, for which his alma mater, Northwestern University, in 1937 awarded Charlie the honorary degree of Master of Innuendo and Snappy Comeback. An assistance also is the fact that Charlie's person, due to his vast press, is almost as well known to radio listeners as his sage, snide, bored voice. Charlie and Bergen collect $100,000 a year from the sale of dolls, gadgets, silverware and other copies of cocky Charlie...
Like the Lundberg book, the Seldes book rambles, relies heavily on innuendo. It contains a large store of previously published facts, many a windy, publisher-baiting tirade. Mr. Ickes found considerable ammunition in it. Author Seldes, said Biologist Pearl last week, wrote him several times to find out about the "suppression" of his tobacco study, was told there was no suppression-yet indicated in Lords of the Press that the story had been suppressed...
...second ranking U. S. tennist. He had passed up the Newport tournament, last major tune-up before the U. S. championships, in order to scout the Australians. For cocky young Bobby Riggs, who has won 14 U. S. tournaments this year, was smarting under Don Budge's recent innuendo (that, if he were chosen for the Davis Cup team, he would probably lose both his singles matches...