Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trained for it on items about "who was going to divorce whom, and who was going to have a baby, and approximately when." And he was fallible even there. With a scandalized look at the ethics of columnists, the Enquirer quoted him: "'The Monocle Set . ... doubt the recent rumor (that Queen Liz is enceinte). . . . We stole the rumor from a London correspondent for an American newsmag,* which is what comes from stealing news from amateurs...
...newsmag was TIME; the item was stolen from a confidential cable to its editors which relayed the London rumor (which TIME did not print) and concluded: "We have no reason to believe it is true...
...firmest tenets in Harry Truman's personal code is that the private lives of his womenfolk should remain private. Accordingly, the President had an unhappy time of it last week when a rumor curled around Washington that daughter Margaret was about to become engaged...
Keyholer Walter Winchell, claiming a "scoopee (we hope)," gave the rumor currency by a second-hand report that 34-year-old Frank Handy, son of the publisher of the Ypsilanti (Mich.) Press, "has the engagement ring in his pocket now, waiting for [Margaret's] uh-huh." Washington society began to envision a White House wedding;* some even speculated about its political usefulness...
Strapping, affable Frank Handy, who now operates a printing shop in Ypsilanti, had had dates with Margaret when he worked for the State Department as an interpreter. The engagement rumor caught up with him at a newspaper convention in Chicago. Was it true? Handy said he would have to make "one or two long-distance calls" before he could comment. Later, after news of the White House denial reached Chicago, he said: "I think I'll stand on that...