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High-level Washington hummed with the rumor that the U.S. had picked up new aerial samples of a second Russian superbomb explosion-a blast which, said the rumor, indicated that the Soviet Union may well have found a short cut to a superbomb that is smaller and more easily delivered than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Conditional Acceptance | 1/4/1954 | See Source »

...Asked what they would do if they heard a rumor that war had broken out, 54% of those interviewed answered:"Turn on the radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Anybody Listening? | 12/21/1953 | See Source »

With Balzotti missing a rumor has continued to circulate in the Yard that the Yearbook Publications and a group of freshmen who call themselves the "Balzotti Election Committee," have conspired to engineer a large scale hoax on the freshman class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yearbook, Freshmen Seek 'Lost' Balzotti | 12/8/1953 | See Source »

...Italian government for return of 36 love !enters from Il Duce to Clara, plus pages from her diary and other personal documents. Although the government confiscated the papers because of their "national historical interest." Rome buzzed with the word that the letters are not yet entirely historical. As the rumor went, the government is reluctant to part with evidence that many a now prominent Italian asked favors of Mussolini through the dictator's doxy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 23, 1953 | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

...story is as simple and deadly as the flight of a poisoned arrow. Its hero is Marius, a French sea captain who has lost his master's ticket for running a merchant ship into a known minefield during World War II, and whom rumor accuses of some greater, vaguer crime. By day he haunts the shipping offices of Marseille in his greasy old captain's uniform, cringing and wheedling for another command. By night he gets roaring drunk and tries to check his conscience and his failure at the local brothel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Perdition of Marius | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

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