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...many another corporation was finding the capital market sticky. It was one of the big reasons he was picked when Walter Gifford decided that he would like to step aside. An easy talker, with a good memory for faces and names, new President Wilson is an impressive example of copybook maxims put into practice. "If you know what you're fitted to do and do it well," he once said, "your life will be a success...
...choked off newsprint, Lord Camrose might have got there four years ago. He sacrificed circulation to stay at six pages during the war (and also to make more money on his columns of classified ads, said Fleet Streeters). His Telegraph won success by copybook rules: saving its money and adopting honesty as the best news policy. Readers generally find the Telegraph's stodgy Tory editorials almost unreadable, but, more important, they also get great grey blobs of news unslanted and in plentiful supply. The Telegraph is an outstanding example of responsible journalism in an era of crisis and confusion...
When it came to rehabilitating Stan Musial, the usual rules didn't apply. He is a "hip hitter" who does his best when ignoring the copybook: holding one shoulder lower than the other, hugging the rear of the batter's box, crouching forward with a ready-to-pounce stance, putting a lot of body wiggle behind his swing. Musial himself blamed his slump on too much golf during the winter and spring; he put his golf clubs into the closet. A slim, conscientious player, who at 26 earns about $27,000 a year, Musial spent hours...
...years ago were constantly badgered ... for either libeling Soviet life or indulging in hothouse estheticism, have lately been awarded the highest honors." On this encouraging (but no longer valid) premise, he concludes: "Perhaps some day the present zeal for using the theater as a means for visual demonstration of copybook maxims (Soviet version) will pass...
...York police estimated) had gathered in Central Park to hear the President. They stretched almost across the width of the park. But they were not stirred by the speech. The President said little he had not said before. As usual, he sounded as if he were reciting from a copybook, not too well-written. But this time the copybook had a new and very impressive binding. Against the background of the seapower in the Hudson and the airpower over Manhattan's skyscrapers, he restated U.S. foreign policy...