Word: rumoring
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...Rumor of the week in Washington: Hoffa and Star Trial Lawyer Edward Bennett Williams (other clients: Frank Costello, Bernard Goldfine and Adam Clayton Powell) will soon part company...
...calm voice, the Rev. Francesco Pellegrino, S.J., projected such a sense of immediacy ("I have just come from the bedside of the Holy Father") that one listener was moved to observe:"You could almost hear the Pope breathe." After the Pope's death,† the mills ground out rumor (e.g., that the Pope's secret diaries had been stolen) and worked up enough "dope" stories discussing the "papabili" of the church's 53 cardinals to bring a public remonstrance from the Vatican...
...wind of rumor and counter-rumor-would he be "political" or "pastoral," Italian or non-Italian, young long-termer or aged caretaker-mounted through the week until it seemed that the only people not talking about the coming conclave were the cardinals themselves-each aware that any public discussion might bring down on him the accusation (punishable by excommunication if proved) of entering into "pacts, promises or other obligations." When a newsman asked Cardinal Tisserant in the hall of the Consistory if he thought the future Pope might be in the room (which contained almost all the cardinals then...
With six of the seven Goldschmidt paintings bought for U.S. collectors, the experts began guessing for whom the dealers were fronting. Hottest rumor: the record-breaking Cezanne and two Manets had been bought for Philanthropist Paul Mellon. Eventual destination: the National Gallery, Washington...
...Americans existing among the younger generation. What direct contacts they had made in missions, schools, and hospitals convinced them that Americans were more informal and easier to converse with than the British, possessing none of the latter's attitude of condescension towards African culture. What they had heard through rumor, newspaper, radio, and the movies convinced them that the U.S. was a place of fabulous wealth, great opportunity, leisure, and few conflicts...