Word: broking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finished a Civil War epic, The Long Ride Home, and a romantic farce co-starring Sandra Dee, Doctor, You've Got to Be Kidding, George was making the rounds - and the columns - with a succession of starlets. Just as it seemed that their ardor had cooled, Lynda abruptly broke off her Hawaiian vacation, and has been making the scene with George ever since. By last week, in fact, there were signs that Lynda's father may have to resign himself to the inevitability of George - even though in private the President, feigning ignorance of .the fellow...
...Real Rewards. The youngster from Glasgow, Ky., who dropped out of Princeton in his freshman year for lack of funds broke into journalism in 1907 as a cub reporter for the Louisville Herald. He covered his first beat on horseback, became a Washington correspondent for the Louisville Times just three years later. In 1915 he was home again in Louisville as editorial director of both the Times and its sister paper, the Courier-Journal...
...wrote than with any punditry." He scorned the official handout, preferring to find out for himself. And as a result, he piled up an impressive catalogue of scoops. In 1933 he was the first to report that the U.S. was going off the gold standard; that same year, he broke the news about the formation of the NRA. He won Pulitzer prizes for exclusive interviews with Presidents Roosevelt and Truman. Even after he was replaced by James Reston as bureau chief in 1953, the probing columnist stayed on the job. "I didn't retreat," he says. "I withdrew...
When the Commissioner of Internal Revenue has lunch with the ex-Commissioner of Internal Revenue, it's a good possibility that Topic A will be taxes. So it was last week in a private Washington, D.C., dining room where ex-Commissioner Mortimer Caplin broke bread with Sheldon Cohen, the man who succeeded him last year. One issue Caplin wanted to talk about was lack of taxes, specifically from the tax-exempt organizations that profit so neatly from their publications...
...also broke away from moralistic story books with adult vocabularies, wrote her own Here and Now Story Book in words that kids really use. Bank Street, accenting city settings and depicting both Negroes and whites, also turned out one of the nation's first "integrated" textbooks. Still, while Mrs. Mitchell, now 88, adopted many Dewey ideas to make school a happy experience, she deplored the progressive schools that overemphasized "life adjustment." They were likely, she warned, to "raise a generation of well-adjusted morons...