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...screen composer John Williams (Star Wars, Jurassic Park) is leaving the Boston Pops at the end of this year, and the orchestra is looking for a new leader -- preferably someone with star power, a marquee name. Among the people still in the running for the Pops job, according to rumor: Top 40- esque entertainers Billy Joel, Paul McCartney, Quincy Jones and Marvin Hamlisch. There are also more conventional candidates up for the post, including conductors Erich Kunzel of the Cincinnati Pops and John Mauceri of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra...
Lots of scuttlebutt still swirls in the locker room. One oft-mentioned rumor has Restic and Yale coach Carm Cozza both jointly stepping down and ending their 23-year rivalry together, but Restic has denied the existence of such an arrangement...
...Republican consultant told a network newscaster that his job was to make sure Hillary Clinton is discredited before the 1996 campaign. Each day anti- Hillary talking points go out to talk-show hosts. The rumor machine is cranking out bogus stories about her face (lifted), her sex life (either nonexistent or all too active) and her marriage (a sham). Many of the stories are attributed to the Secret Service in an attempt to give the tales credibility. She denies the yarn about her throwing a lamp (or Bible or vase), then wonders about the sources. "Why are they telling lies...
There were plenty of little shockers in store for me that weekend: the fireplaces in the Wigglesworth common rooms I visited; the rumor of a swimming pool in Adams House; the guy I saw leaving one of my hosts' bedroom one morning. (Did people...do that? Here...
...King and the scheduled trial this summer of three black men charged with assaulting white truck driver Reginald Denny, will determine just how much anger is pent up in the city's poor districts. In the well-off neighborhoods, the fear of new riots rose on an updraft of rumor. This time the gangs would not be content to bounce the rubble in their own neighborhoods but would descend instead on the suburbs. On a radio call-in show, a young gang member said he plans to raid the "three Bs," meaning the rich domains of Brentwood...