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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scheduled 15-minute interview on Allen's midnight show. Looking as mild and mischievous as Grandma Moses in a barroom, the weathered old buckeye bard casually ignored the time limit on his stint, brushed aside his M.C.'s good-nights and thank-yous, stayed on happily ad-libbing, reading, reciting and singing for the full hour that remained of the show. Asked by the harassed Allen if he would mind the interruption of a popular tune by Pianist Marian McPartland, the old man conceded gracefully-but with a qualification: "Just so she doesn't sing Teach...
...Journal-American, the first daily started by William Randolph Hearst himself and now the home paper of W. R. Hearst Jr., is the biggest afternoon paper (circ. 669,700). But its circulation is 8% off its peak, and its ad linage last year was down 17%. The Journal's screaming red headlines and crusading zeal once appealed to New York's immigrant population, but this formula no longer works so well. Though it has cut its staff to trim expenses and runs giveaway contests (Cashword Puzzles, Daily Double Racing Game, Lucky Safety Cards) to boost circulation, the Journal...
...American people do not sufficiently understand the rule of law be cause it has never been properly explained to them. The legal profession has not succeeded in explaining it perhaps because it has been too busy with ad hoc issues and winning cases. The teaching profes sion has not succeeded in explaining it per haps because it has not sensed its true importance. If the two great pillars of society, law and learning, are to stand, the professional representatives of each must come to the aid of the other...
Whitlock had wiped the dust off Dudley's hidden potential, ad the commuter responded by unleashing his feeling of independence and spirit. A vote taken by the Student Council in the Spring of '53 revealed that 223 students preferred membership in the Commuter's Center as opposed to the seven who wanted non-resident membership in the house system. And only three selected a renovated Dudley over the choice of an entirely new center...
Denominator. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Dorothy Berk Walters was awarded an uncontested divorce when she complained to the judge that, while she was out of town, her husband had run an ad in a newspaper personal column which read: "Man, 53, old car, no looks, no job, no qualities, no money, no hero, no nothing, seeks congenial companion to go places and do things in pursuit of happiness," had received more than 30 answers, with comments like "Looks is only skin deep" and "I'll mother my man . . . I'm a little good and a little...