Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said OWI Director Elmer Davis: "[The] willingness to accept wildly exaggerated rumor in place of fact is doubtless due to honest bewilderment. I can assure you that up to noon today [Oct. 28], when I last talked to Navy representatives, all sinkings of major United States vessels have been reported...
...rumor that the new uniforms darkening the Yard were Commando suite was cleared up as officials explained that the blue wool shirts and trousers are the new winter uniform. Used for all Naval students here, it has been especially designed to suit conditions of weather and school...
...This office wishes to correct a wide spread and thoroughly unfounded rumor that enlistments in V-1 and V-7 will close on November 1. The Office of Naval Officer Procurement has informed us that applications will be received until further notice. No deadline for the immediate future seems to be contemplated, but it is possible that enlistments may be closed without any advance notice...
According to rumor, "The Magnificent Dope" was originally titled "The Magnificent Jerk." It doesn't make much difference, no matter how thin it's sliced. Henry Fonda has played a country yokel so often that Li'I' Abner is not even a good second. Lynn Bari looks appealing enough to warrant the trouble the orchestra goes to whenever she shows up. Don Ameche gives a performance of a go-getting success salesman that wouldn't even do justice to Alexander Graham Bell. You can make some money taking bets about who's the "Magnificent Dope," Ameche, Fonda, or the innocent...
...Eric Larrabee '43, secretary, added. "Partiality to 4-F's is already the guiding rule in choosing members of this immature joke-sheet." Speedball O'Shaughnessy of De Wolfe Street, long the official bootblack for the Ibis-nest adolescents, is being groomed for the presidency, according to a current rumor, but this was vigorously denied by Michael J. Sullivan...