Word: rumoring
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...months Burger Baron Ray Kroc, 76, founder of the McDonald's hamburger chain, has been bedeviled by a rumor that he donates money to the Church of Satan, a San Francisco-based cult. "The most vicious thing I've ever heard and all lies," sputters Kroc. Nonetheless, on many fundamentalist Christians in the Southern and Midwestern Bible Belt, the rumor has had the impact of a Big Mac attack in reverse: they are boycotting McDonald's. So far, the protests have had a negligible effect, but just to make sure, McDonald's Executive Doug Timberlake last...
...rumor start? Most of the burger boycotters cite a Phil Donahue TV talk show on which Kroc appeared in 1977. Yet transcripts of the show prove that there was no discussion of religion or the devil. Says Kroc. "I don't think holy-holy of our competition, but I don't think they'd stoop that low." The devil must have done...
...Inferiority Complex [Urban Bliss]: Rumor has it at the Harvard-Dartmouth game in Hanover two years ago there was an L.L. Bean vendor in the stands...
...fiction and fact, their dimensions expand with each prankster's tale and their history grows more fantastic. One story tells of a sly undergraduate who, dressed as a workman, avoided the winter snows by travelling to classes through the tunnels. During the 1969 occupation of University Hall, another rumor has it, Harvard administrators escaped invading protesters by fleeing through the underground passages. Once upon a time, the wrestling team jogged through the tunnels, sweating from the triple-digit temperatures, to lose weight before matches. And the stories live...
...Tripoli. They reportedly turned up the Imam's baggage, abandoned in a hotel. Italian police, after combing hotels, boardinghouses and the homes of Lebanese in Rome, announced that there was no evidence that the Imam had ever been in the Italian capital. Throughout the Middle East, there were rumors that the Imam, who was born in the Iranian holy city of Qum, had secretly returned to his homeland to join the anti-Shah underground. Alternatively, there was a rumor he had been kidnaped by the Shah's secret police...