Word: arens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spot News. Black-haired "Barney" Kilgore arrived fresh from college, like most Journal men, and has never worked for any other paper. As an editor, he put a new kind of news into the Journal: the chatty, informative Page One "leaders" that look like spot news, but aren't. They may range (as they did last week) from trends in turkey-farming to the prospects for Paramount Pictures, and are often the work of many days and many men. "It doesn't have to be news today for us to think it's news," says Executive Editor...
...Journal is long on charts, graphs and maps. By aiming at the Main Streets of the U.S. as well as at Wall Street, its editors think they have distributed the risk in case of another depression. "Financial people are nice people, and all that," says Kilgore, "but there aren't enough of them to make this paper...
...were doing "good work." Book-of-the-Month Club Judge Marquand, whose job is to find books he can extol, finds that "the older writers have said about all they can be expected to say. The younger writers have something inside themselves that's new and different . . . . They aren't trying to write like Hemingway . . . . Lately things have been picking up . . . . Our literature is just on the verge of getting significant." He singled out as the best of the young writers Jean (The Mountain Lion} Stafford, Thomas (Mister Roberts) Heggen, A. B. (The Big Sky) Guthrie...
...night she parks by the indoor Athletic Building, where it is quiet. She rocks a little now and again. But there is something in her bearing that attracis boy and girl yet, and whenever her Leverett House owners aren't locking she takes in lodgers...
...tosses noodles from an altitude of eight or nine hundred feet. That, of course, is the really puzzling thing about the Flying Thudwunk-where does it get the noodles? Up until the time that it pauses and reshapes itself no noodles are visible at all. In fact, they aren't ever visible until they hit the Thudwunk-gazer in the eye. At that juncture the gazer loses sight of the Thudwunk...