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When FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover died last year, he left most of his estate of $551,500 to his longtime buddy Clyde A. Tolson, 72, who was with the FBI from 1928 till the day after Hoover died. Washington rumor had it that Tolson intended to turn Hoover's $100,000 Georgetown house into a private museum. If so, it will be an empty one, because Tolson has been quietly selling Hoover's art objects and other belongings at auction. In one consignment were four pairs of binoculars. For work or for Hoover's long days...
...Crimson ought to be playing equal to anyone in the Ivy League though there are four other teams with a shot at the title. Columbia, last year's dual-meet champion, returns with a strong squad, but rumor has it that three of their top players are on academic probation and are only probable for League competition. Penn, Princeton and Navy also are returning top teams, and Dartmouth and Brown are much improved...
...ONCE a game made out of movie star gossip. The object was to try to list everyone that counted in Hollywood--the experts could do it alphabetically--according to who slept with whom. And the winner completed an unbroken chain of names, an incest ring. I heard it rumored that one die-hard fan had played the game with Harvard gossip, and won. But it's most likely just a rumor...
...Sinai before the captain sighted what he thought were Egyptian MIGs flying wingtip to wingtip with him. Actually, the planes were Israeli Phantoms alerted by radar. The Israelis were more sensitive than usual to any invasion of their air space that day, for two reasons. One was an odd rumor that Arab fedayeen were planning some sort of kamikaze raid on Israel using a disguised civilian airliner. The other was a more substantial report that a commando of trained Al-Fatah guerrillas was flying from Libya to Cairo en route to camps in Syria and Lebanon...
...Rumor has it that the roads to Massachusetts might be rolled up before the Senator leaves here, because this is his state," Squire told the cheering crowd...