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Conway added that he had not completed arrangements for other visitors to the House. He denied a rumor that Jack Kerovac, author of "On the Road," a novel about American bohemians, was coming to Leverett...
Girls & Hardware. The day after Khrushchev's speech came the public climax of the anniversary gala-the four-hour parade through Red Square during which the Soviet armed forces traditionally show off their new weapons. This year, after Khrushchev's talk of intercontinental missiles and the persistent rumor that the Russians had sent up a rocket timed to hit the moon Nov. 7, the parade was an anticlimax. Though Rome's Communist daily L'Unità had confidently predicted that the day would be fine, because "Soviet experts are capable of creating good weather," the Moscow...
...reply to the long-bouncing rumor that he would soon succeed John Foster Dulles* as Secretary of State, Dewey said: "Secretary Dulles will be here for the duration. We've got a fine Secretary of State. He's going to stay until 1960, so far as I know...
...Rumor-mongering, almost as popular a sport as saucer-spotting, has given birth to a whisper that the Russians have launched a third satellite. Dr. Fred L. Whipple, however, said late last night that he had received no word of such a move and doubted the authenticity of the story...
Shortly before World War II, the rumor spread that the frail blonde girl who had trembled for Chabas in the cold water of Lake Annecy was destitute and starving. Chabas stoutly denied it. "She is 41 now," he said at the time, "and, alas, she is no longer as slender as when she posed for me. She is happily married to a wealthy French industrialist and has three lovely children ... I think I succeeded in capturing her delicate charm. She was exactly like the picture...