Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was little likelihood that Carol's ambitions toward the Regency would be taken seriously. He was repudiated by Rumanian refugee groups in both Washington and London. Washington rumor said he had been advised not to apply for a U.S. visa...
...anti-trust suits may have been a case of mixed signals. If not, and despite the questionable relevance of the old antitrust laws in the broadcasting context, the Justice Department might make it tough. In Manhattan, the rumor was that Mutual would soon slap down a damage suit against NBC, alleging violation of the anti-trust laws. With this cold turkey NBC and CBS began the New Year...
...wildest rumor, soon exposed, claimed that Field Marshal von Brauchitsch had flown like a Hess to Ireland. But other rumors came in a persistent, persuasive flood from the listening posts of Europe...
...France's musical tradition. Although in recent years he has conducted more than he has played, he still gives piano concerts. Violinist Thibaud, for a time heartbroken by the loss of a son in the war, now plays in Occupied and Unoccupied France. Cellist Casals, contrary to rumor, is not in concentration camp, although as a Catalan partisan of the Loyalists he is out of favor with the Spanish Government. He gives concerts in southern France, is not allowed to return to Barcelona, where he has a large family, once had his own orchestra...
Norway. Soprano Kirsten Flagstad, who went from the U.S. to Norway last spring and apparently got stuck there, is rumored to have sung, or to be scheduled to sing, in Vienna's run-down opera. The rumor is probably not true, unless Flagstad wished to make some gesture of sympathy toward the unhappy Viennese. The more powerful Berlin opera, which would be flattered to get Flagstad, is not popular among Norwegians. When it played in Oslo, the opera was sold out, but the house was empty. Norwegians had bought all the tickets, torn them...