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...editorials subpoenaed the ghost of Joe McCarthy for a satiric soliloquy, thrice peppered Jimmy ("Public Enemy No. 1") Hoffa, cudgeled Yugoslavia's Tito and the New York City board of education, ranged more or less merrily from the World Series to San Marino to Jayne Mansfield's bedipitus. Other dewatermelonization steps: ¶ reprint of a radio essay by CBS Commentator Eric Sevareid reflecting on the recent sad decline of quality in the Herald Tribune, and his hopes for a return to its "old heritage." ¶ A well-pruned letters column in a freshened format that substitutes breeze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Dewatermelonization | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

...Bedipitus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 9, 1948 | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

...Callipygian" is an easy, graceful word, and besides I have been to Naples-but "bedipitus" [TIME, July 26] does not appear to be in my copy of Webster's Unabridged . . . Where did you find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 9, 1948 | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

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