Word: calloused
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bone hurting handshake of a farm boy") and the late Broadway columnist Mark Hellinger-who gave Biographer Bishop (The Mark Hellinger Story) early, well-heeded lessons in Hearstmanship. Sample Hellinger commandments to Bishop: "Use only short words"; "the way to write a sob story is to be callous"; "before writing, always read a few hundred words of your favorite author...
...bother the majority of the committee, large segments of the population were disturbed at what they considered purely political appointments. Letters of protest poured into the Committee office from parents, from Parent-Teacher Associations, and even from teachers' and masters' associations. Sample letters read: "We disapprove... of this open, callous disregard of the best interests of our school children;" "You are destroying the confidence of parents, teachers, children, and masters;" "You have broken a sacred trust placed in you by citizens...
...labyrinth of Asiatic intrigue. But Stopover: Tokyo is a brand-new Moto novel, and the change is significant: no longer need Mr. Moto patiently explain to the young American what the shooting is all about. Instead of an adventurous idealist, Hero Jack Rhyce is a trained CIA agent, as callous and professional as Moto himself. Even the villain is American-a big, handsome Communist so crafty and devious that he hoodwinks Moto into arresting Rhyce as a spy. There is an even more startling difference: in the prewar Moto stories, the clean-cut American usually won the lovable American girl...
Your story on callous Callas was something. But your Koerner cover was something better. More of his covers please...
...about the situation in Hungary and elsewhere to others, but be ready to volunteer and fight, if necessary, to secure the liberties of our fellowman, though they might be 4,000 miles away. Anyone who heard or read the urgent radio appeals from Hungary last Saturday night would be callous indeed, were he not ready to strike a blow for freedom now, even if he has been in Korea or in a concentration camp aboad during World War II. Refugees streaming into Austria from Hungary, asked this...