Word: rumoring
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...Tony had hoped to motor about quietly. But the islanders-some 5,000 of them-turned out in force to cheer them and present the princess with a bouquet as wild as her unruly locks. The half-royal couple will return to Britain next week, leaving behind a wistful rumor that Margaret may be the next Governor General of the two-year-old West Indies Federation...
...telephone, Reutlinger got the first interview with Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, who delivered the Dionne quintuplets, by calling long distance to Callandar, Ont. After the Lindbergh kidnaping, Reutlinger was the first newsman to reach Colonel Lindbergh in Hopewell, N.J.- by long distance telephone. But he persistently denied a rumor that he once posed as President Harding - over the phone, of course - to gain access to some information he wanted from the White House: "I believe in honest journalism," he said rather injuredly...
...probability that they will lose. In a statement implying that pay TV would corrupt the public interest for selfish purposes, CBS President Frank Stanton has nevertheless assured stockholders that if the worst happened, CBS is prepared to take the pay way too. And the trade nurtures the rumor that NBC has a toll system in the works. "If the pay system develops," said President Sarnoff early this year, "free television, as we know it, would face disintegration, and we would have no alternative but to join the coin collectors of the future...
...there a new way to write a news story? Columnist Walter Winchell seems to think so. After the heading, "Oh, the hellwithit!", W.W. last week wrote: "Big rumor that Johnny Mathis is secretly married to a Harlem schoolmarm. Think her name is Bunny Drummond. Anyway, let's print it and see how the retraction bounces...
...jittery Cairo, the rumor spread that the Israelis were mobilizing secretly to attack while Nasser was in Damascus...