Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Forty-year-old Marchand had had a young girl friend and model whose classic head and swan neck he turned into Picassoid portraits-hammered, twisted, bilious. Then one day-so said Parisian rumor-Picasso had taken Marchand's girl for himself, and put her beauty in a classically simple and straightforward etching (TIME, July...
Died. John Ray Sinnock, 58, chief engraver of the U.S. Mint, designer of the Roosevelt dime and the Purple Heart Medal; of a brain tumor; in Staten Island. Wags have peddled the rumor that the artist's initials, a microscopic "JS" on the new 10? piece, stood for Joseph Stalin...
...there were three big projects for postwar magazines. One, Curtis Publishing Co.'s LIFE-like picture magazine, has already been shelved. Another, Crowell-Collier's international version of Collier's, is still in the works, but deep in production problems. Last week Marshall Field confirmed a rumor about the third. USA was no longer living off his money...
...rumor of the week was that a man could get a new Ford car in exchange for a 1943 copper penny. Thousands of citizens bothered Ford dealers to find out if it was true. It wasn't. (And only steel-zinc pennies were minted...
...last week, the market demonstrated that it needed a raising of confidence more than a lowering of margins. Burdened by the talk of a steel strike and a possible recession, the stockmarket had fallen to a low for 1947. Then at week's end came a rumor that U.S. Steel and the C.I.O. Steelworkers had reached an agreement. Stocks shot up from one to three points. When the rumor became fact this week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) the average climbed an additional 1.06 points...