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...Democratic Governor Herschel Loveless, who has a vice-presidential gleam in his eye, made an unscheduled sortie across the Mississippi to Moline, Ill., for a testimonial dinner for Massachusetts, hard-running Senator Jack Kennedy. Asked if this meant an endorsement, Loveless smiled and replied: "You can say that rumor has it so." ¶ In Washington later, Senator Kennedy, having acknowledged privately that he might ultimately find himself Adlai Stevenson's vice-presidential candidate, let the word out that he entertains no vice-presidential ambitions for himself. ¶ Oregon's stormy Senator Wayne Morse, violent anti-Kennedyite...
...months, publishing circles have buzzed with the rumor that the New York Journal-American (circ. 599,536), biggest afternoon paper in the Hearst chain, was selling out to Scripps-Howard's afternoon New York World-Telegram and Sun (circ. 450,486). The rumor gained currency in the light of two major Hearst and Scripps-Howard mergers: last year's merger of Hearst's money-losing International News Service with Scripps-Howard's United Press, and last summer's union of Hearst's unprofitable San Francisco evening paper, the Call-Bulletin, with Scripps-Howard...
Patiently, but with mounting irritation, Hearst executives denied the rumor every time it popped up, finally exploded last week when the American Newspaper Guild, recirculating the rumor, all but buried the Journal-American. In an article in the Guild Reporter, the Guild's International Executive Board asked U.S. Department of Justice trustbusters to investigate "with zeal a reported arrangement between Hearst and Scripps-Howard news, paper chains to carve up their markets." Continued the Guildsmen: "Now more than 600,000 subscribers of the Hearst Journal-American . . . may soon be deprived of their favorite newspaper, despite denials. The Hearst Journal...
...races approach, speculation and rumor spread eagerly, and spying and the cunning release of mis-information become increasingly valuable. One afternoon when the heavies were commuting from Henley to their lodgings at Shiplake, someone asked the Crimson manager what time the train left. "6:32," he replied. By the next morning it was common knowledge that the heavies had rowed a trial heat in 6.32, only two seconds short of the record...
Samuels denied the rumor that the Forum had been considering the Rindge Technical High School Auditorium as a site for the Hoffa speech, in the event of an overflow crowd...