Word: blanke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night of his death, George Polk ate a hearty lobster dinner, perhaps in a waterfront café on dirty Niki Street. A short time later, Polk was shot point-blank from behind with a long-barreled gun, then tied up with 30 feet of rope. Probable scene of the crime: one of the countless coastwise vessels with which the harbor swarms. (To shoot Polk first and then drag his bleeding, trussed body through Salonika's streets could hardly have escaped notice; to lure him to a caique, and then shoot him in a below-deck cabin, would have been...
Then Jim Duff fired point-blank at the Grundy strategists. "If they want to get tough," said Big Jim, "I'll show them that I can get tough, too. I'm not looking for a fight but I certainly am not going to sit down and do nothing . . . Let them start something and see the heads fall...
...Czechoslovakia, there was no real need for gloves. The country had a Soviet-style election. Every voter had his choice -of one candidate. Premier Klement Gottwald called his election "the freest in the world." However, anybody who turned in a blank ballot would be considered a traitor. (The Reds...
Last week, in France-Soir's building on the Rue Réaumur, blond young (28) Publisher Aristide Blank made a hardheaded guess about the future of the French press; "An island of collectivism cannot exist in a sea of capitalism. The only possible press here is one based on solid commercial foundations. In a few months the entire face of the French press will change. Then there will be only very small papers of opinion, and very great papers of information. We are going in the direction of cartels of the press...
...nearing the deadline for Scripps-Howard's San Francisco News. And dapper Jack Burket, editor recently turned columnist, was blank of ideas. Just in time, he found one, and turned out an essay on the moods of San Francisco at dawn and dusk. Over at the rival Hearst Call-Bulletin, the column seemed to stir memories. Leafing through files, the Hearstlings found an April 23 piece by A.P. Columnist Hal Boyle-on the moods of Manhattan at dawn and dusk. They reprinted the columns side by side, under the heading HO HUM. Sample quotes...