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Phil "How're yaw'll" Masquelette, roommate of "the Light," currently has the eagers for a Pine Manor miss, says Dame Rumor. Red Summers, authority on anything but women, claims to have been hitched early in his career, but Kewpie O'Donnell is telling a great untruth. Tunstall "Pal" Perry, uncoverer of much information, seeks any help that can be offered him by anyone. If you have any old information that you are about to dispose of, see "Pal"--he wants...

Author: By The PEARSON Twins, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 2/6/1945 | See Source »

...Deal, was running a candidate of its own. So, last week Franklin Roosevelt tried again. Said he, in a telegram addressed to Bennett but meant for the ears of the American Labor Party: "To suggest that my support of you is formal and lukewarm is an untruth. . . . You are without any question the best qualified of all the candidates for the governorship. . . . There are no strings to this endorsement ... I do not believe in protest voting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Solomons, Manpower, Elections | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

...criticizing himself. In firm, rayon tones he announced his resignation as conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Said he, with reference to his critics: "I have always tried to give Philadelphia beauty through music because I believe in beauty and truth. If the atmosphere surrounding my conducting is to be untruth and ugliness, I cannot give of my best." It appeared that next season, for the first time in 29 years, Stokowski really would not wave pale hands over the orchestra which he had made one of the two or three plushiest-sounding in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Stokowski Quits | 3/31/1941 | See Source »

Dick Harlow when contacted by the CRIMSON last night in regard to the rumor that he is planning to leave Harvard this year and go to Ohio State (succeeding Francis Schmidt) branded the whole story as "an absolute untruth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harlow Denial | 10/31/1940 | See Source »

Last week Prophet Wolfe undertook his biggest assignment. He well knew that many a U. S. citizen tenaciously believes more evident untruths about Soviet Russia than he would ever permit himself to believe about any other government in the world. Most dangerous untruth at this time: that the hard-boiled bosses in the Kremlin are somehow longing to aid the democracies which they had been busily undermining for some 20 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Marche Slav | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

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