Word: rumores
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...laughed about my so-called 'death' before," he said last year, when his health seemed excellent and he smilingly scotched the sort of morbid rumor that forever comes up in the career of an aging giant. Of course he was not dead. The lines of his face had deepened and the skin had toughened. There was less gloss and more grey in his hair. But this was like seasonal change on a mountain. The basic topography was nearly permanent. He was, after all, Clark Gable...
Cambridge rumor-mongers are at it again: Dean Bundy will supposedly become chief of the State Department's Policy Planning Staff...
Bundy, however, quashed this story, which reportedly started at a Faculty cocktail party last weekend. "I am quite busy here," he commented. End another rumor...
...today is estimated at around 50%. One top underground leader told friends he no longer worried that servants would betray him. Cubans who used to dismiss the Communism charges as right-wing American propaganda are beginning to wake up. A shudder of fear swept Havana last week when a rumor got around that the government was planning to "nationalize" children along Communist lines...
...sardines without going to Boston first.) A uniquely American practice, the road tryout is as formalized as the judicium Dei the ordeal of the Middle Ages. The road ordeal is by rewriting and cutting, by sleepless nights and interminable waiting, by cold coffee and warm highball, by panicky rumor and wild hope. Severely tested along with everyone else is the audience, which has to sit through long scenes already marked for destruction. As a production is laboriously dragged from town to town (before Camelot reaches New York, its railway fares and freight charges alone will reach $35,000), a playwright...