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...doctor's health talks are an adroit mixture of sharply worded advice and blunt humor. "Life," he explains to his ten million listeners, "is a matter of moments that are lost and bowels that are distended." His descriptions of ailments are calculated to shock hypochondriacs out of their introspective gloom ("Just think of a boil-as round as a football, as red as a raspberry, as tender as the treacly smile of a lovesick maiden...
...year's unprecedented profits was shown by Union Oil Co. of California, which reported profits of $13,749,940 for the first nine months (compared with $6,624,352 in the same period last year). Union's president since 1938, Reese Taylor, 48, an ex-WPBer as blunt as he is big, gained respect on the West Coast for pulling California's Consolidated Steel Corp. out of the red in the mid-'30s. He thinks business need not be apologetic about profits. Said he: "If the company is to provide an incentive to shareholders to continue...
Coach Mikkola was blunt last night. "With the strength we have, it is very possible that we might be last." Naturally, the Varsity will huff and puff its hardest over the five-mile Nassau course, but considering the admittedly superior field. Coach Mikkola's statement is not too pessimistic...
Schary likes to mix imagination with his economy, deftly stirs in social questions. Crossfire, a blunt and effective arraignment of antiSemitism, was made for $600,000, is expected to gross...
...Disaster of Lawrence. A fellow critic has called Pritchett "the most humane of critics . . . not looking for perfection but for the essential life in a book." The "essential life," for Pritchett, is usually blunt and British. With such novelists as Lawrence, Wells and Conrad he is less humane. Wells, he writes, lived in a "new world of agitating chemicals, peculiar glands, and obliterating machines. . . . He did not attribute anything but an obstructive value to human personality." Conrad had a feeling for real life, but obscured it with a "dubious Romantic over-world." Lawrence's "phallic cult was a disaster...