Word: rumoring
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...spokesman for Gargoyle, the College's humor magazine, which by rumor is implicated in the theft, merely pointed out that this is Ibis-mating time. "The Lampoon can keep the broom," he said. "It belongs to the University anyway...
...late even to apologize to Mr. Freeman for not giving notice to his Apollonian Poems until now. The midcult magazines and the little reviews have discussed this collection already, and a fairly prevalent rumor predicts an article in Time. And the time is long past when the CRIMSON should have recognized the work of a man who has spent most of his mature writing years to date in Cambridge, both as student and tutor...
Vanishing American. Despite such slips, Lolly's habitual double-checking usually ensures that the kernel at the heart of the item is correct-though the details may be a little mixed. In rumor-ridden Hollywood she is respected for refusing to print a rumor if she gets a flat denial-a courtesy that not all columnists can afford. She usually punishes those who offend her by keeping them out of her column rather than lambasting them in it. But her wrath, when aroused, has always been formidable. When Producer Nunnally Johnson outraged her dignity, Lolly vented her spleen...
...Rumor, that most efficient of press-agents, had been feverishly busy. It was even said that the Soviet Union was out to get the Rembrandt in order to deliver a crushing blow to Western prestige. Parke-Bernet (pronounced Eer-net) issued about 850 tickets for seats and standing room in the main gallery, but almost twice as many people showed up on the big night, and tickets were selling for $50 on the black market. A queue began forming on the sidewalk more than an hour before the auction was to begin; not only Parke-Bernet's main gallery...
...obituary columns: the death of a big collector can convulse the market by suddenly making available treasures that have been out of reach for years. The death of an artist can have even more interesting repercussions. Two years ago, Octogenarian Jacques Villon fractured his hip bone, and the rumor quickly spread that he was dying. Within 24 hours, his canvases disappeared from gallery walls all over Paris as dealer after dealer waited for Villon prices to skyrocket. The old man recovered, but as one Right Bank dealer sheepishly says of himself and his colleagues: "We are like a bunch...