Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since the fall of France, bald, elegant William Christian Bullitt has moved across the U.S. stage, now out to the spotlight, now back to the wings. After his return from serving as Ambassador to France he was gradually lost to view: rumor said that he had gone into seclusion to write a book. Last winter he suddenly crossed the stage: he was President Roosevelt's special emissary on an eight weeks' tour of the Near East. Back he went into the shadow: rumor said he was thinking about running for Governor of Pennsylvania...
...crew, coxed, rumor has it, by Commander C. A. Macgowan, Commanding Officer in the Yard and cox of the Navy crew in 1914, has been whipping itself into shape during the last two weeks under the watchful eye of Tom Bolles. In its first race yesterday against the Riverside Boat Club and M. I. T., the Navy shell came in third, but on Wednesday, with more miles of practice water behind it, the crew may write a different story...
Glenn Taylor calls himself Cowboy Taylor. Idaho never was much of a cowboy State, but it has a cowboy cult. Cowboy Taylor rides from town to town on horseback (rumor has it that he motors over the lonely stretches where voters cannot see him). He rides, says he patriotically, to save tires...
From Army camps and hospitals for the past three months have come rumors of a mysterious epidemic of jaundice. (One rumor: 1,500 jaundiced men in famed Walter Reed Hospital.) Last week War Secretary Henry Stimson was ready to talk. Jaundice had indeed attacked the armed forces. There have been 62 deaths, 28,585 hospital cases-4,528 of them overseas. Mr. Stimson hastily added that the disease is not contagious nor dangerous to the civil population. He could not say definitely what the disease is nor what causes it. (Jaundice, usually thought of as a disease, is really...
...Banner. Ankara's rumor mills last week ground out the report that Joseph Stalin was on his way from Moscow to Stalingrad, one of the southern cities which Timoshenko was trying to save. If the story was true, it completed a parallel of Red Army history: Timoshenko fought at Stalingrad (then Tsaritsyn) after the Revolution, when the White Armies of Denikin and Kolchak were trying to crush the new Russia, and (according to orthodox Communist history) Stalin himself superseded the Red generals, saved the city and Russia with a series of campaigns over the land where the Nazis advanced...