Word: rumorings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Captain A. E. French '29 was taking things easy yesterday and his place in the lineup was filled alternately by A. W. Huguley '31 and T. W. Gilligan '31. The latter's passing was on the whole the best seen all afternoon, and the rumor that he will figure in a backfield shakeup before the end of the week persisted as strongly as ever...
John J. Raskob, cheerful, used to vicissitudes, perhaps something of an opportunist, said: "... we ... shall take our place in the ranks of the majority of American citizens whose desire is the future welfare of our country." He was not to return to General Motors. Perhaps, said rumor, he would head a bigger & better motors combine, with du Ponts in it. Perhaps he would retire to his bayside estate among his children, farms, sailboats...
...fixed one wing and the pilot position being the doubtful points R. H. O'Connell '30 is practically sure to start at one end, but the other berth is being disputed by F. A. Pickard '29 and J. G. Douglas '30. Either one may get the call Saturday. A rumor around Soldiers Field insists that George Crawford ocC will be directing the eleven when it faces the Red and Blue, but the chances are equally good that Coach Horween may send in E. T. Putnam '30 whose stellar work was so effective against Lehigh last Saturday...
...payroll was finally met, patrons were reassured; but when they arrived for the next concert, placards posted outside told them it had been postponed. Conductor Georges Zaslawsky complained of a heart attack. Violinist Paul Kochanski, who was to have been soloist, complained he was not paid according to contract. Rumor had it that Mrs. Clarence Chew Burger, the Symphony's chief underwriter and conductor's friend, had withdrawn her support...
Last spring the rumor circulated that the Metropolitan was through with her. The rumor was false. She will give a few performances in January but first there will be a concert tour through Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Mississippi, Wisconsin, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma. In February she begins again in Lancaster, Pa., goes through the South as far as Havana. It took just one hysterical evening in Manhattan to make the Talley name. The harvest, reaped largely on the road, mounts well toward the million mark...