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Incidentally, rumor has it Wynette demanded an apology from Clinton. Being well acquainted with defending her "theme song" against feminist criticism--she's been fielding the punches ever since the single's 1968 release and subsequent crossover success--we imagine she had a lot to say. A excerpt from her 1979 autobiography Stand By Your Man sums up her feelings...
...according to an official of Children Television's Workshop, which produces the show, the rumor is false--although somewhat creative...
...Democratic Party's favorite non-candidate, Mario M. Cuomo, will speak at the Kennedy School of Government next Wednesday, and the rumor mill is turning again...
...rumor, alas, was unfounded. When the results were released late Thursday to the survey's clients, they showed just another in a long series of declines in consumer spirit: a drop from 68.2 in December to 67.1 in early January. If that wasn't depressing enough, the government released a batch of year-end statistics last week confirming the economy's continuing dismal shape. Retail sales, which account for one-third of all U.S. economic activity, fell 0.4% in December. For all of 1991, they inched up a meager 0.7%, the smallest gain in three decades. The cutback in spending...
...there is a genuine dilemma. Rumors can become so thick and widespread that not to report their existence -- even if they cannot be proved -- becomes a kind of dishonesty. The Washington Post once got in trouble for publishing a rumor without proof it was true, and defended itself editorially on grounds that, well, it's true there was a rumor. Much chortling and indignation at that. But it's not a worthless point. Past profiles of Clinton, in TIME and elsewhere, have reported vague rumors about marital infidelity as exactly that, and rightly...