Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Batting Average .800. It is the same higher up. Lolly Parsons can reach any studio executive in Hollywood within five minutes. The rumor that the great stars consult her before conceiving a child may be one of many malicious exaggerations. But it is the sort of poetic license that characterizes a legendary career. Louella Parsons may not have the biggest circulation of any syndicated film columnist. Erskine Johnson, Robbin Coons and Lolly's famed rival Hedda Hopper, all probably outcirculate her. But she gets a minimum 2,000 fan letters a week, and in lush seasons...
...West Coast, hopeful of a great postwar future for its $190,000,000 war-born aluminum industry, has recently been beset by a horrid rumor. It was whispered that WPB, wallowing in an aluminum surplus, was already planning to shut down many a West Coast plant. Last week the rumors got a solid grounding. The Office of Defense Transportation suggested to WPB that to effect "maximum" savings in transportation, some four-fifths of the West Coast's low price aluminum production would have to be stopped. The raw material, alumina, is another burden on the West's overloaded...
Referring to the rumor that the Boston censor had banned the film for other than private showings President Aldrey of the Spanish Club replied, "No comment." An afternoon showing at 4:15 o'clock is also planned...
...bull about O'Connor slapping Hansen in the late squad at colors the other morning . . . That's ridick, kid . . . Also entirely unverified is the latest story on Fearless Fosdick . . . From this corner, it looks highly problematical that the boy with take over the Regimental Reins Genesis of the rumor is questionable, and the whole thing could be relegated to pure conjecture, according to our usually informed sources . . . Take a pill with the current scuttle about Witt's joining the typing staff...
Sweden's press, starting point of many an international rumor chase, is also home base for the misleading headline. Example: "RUSSIAN TROOPS TO ITALY?", followed by a story quoting Bern speculation based on Ankara reports that Soviet participation in the Advisory Council for Italy might logically involve-"who knows?"-Russian troops...