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...Pulitzer Prize once went to a pint-sized reporter who was small enough to crawl into a cave and interview Floyd Collins. Five Detroit Free Pressmen won the prize for reporting an American Legion parade. Ambidextrous Reuben Maury earned his Pulitzer for his "power to in fluence public opinion": a self-confessed hireling, he used to write isolationist editorials for the New York Daily News, interventionist editorials for Collier...
...over a year, Italian Socialists (except a small, staunch group under Saragat which seceded in January 1947) have slavishly cooperated with the Communists. Now, with its head in the lion's mouth, the Socialist Party would have to decide whether to crawl right down the lion's throat: if it entered the front, its candidates would appear on joint Communist-Socialist ballots in the Italian national elections next April...
...Other Voices Other Rooms, Novelist Capote is safe from smothering in laurels. The book is a literary contrivance of unusual polish, better than the brightly ghostly short stories that gave its author a minor reputation. But it is immature and its theme is calculated to make the flesh crawl...
...chicken sandwiches lasted him to Missouri. The Times ran daily dispatches under his byline, datelined St. Louis ("my back is aching"), Kansas City ("tell my mother I'm fine"), Tulsa ("I can hardly wait to crawl into bed") and points west. Hundreds of letters poured in from readers. Some upbraided the Hearst organization as a bunch of cheap skates. City Editor MacLellan, pleased with his cub's performance, grunted: "Why, I didn't realize until this week that the kid has cousins near Pasadena. That'll save him money...
...Fear is a powerful weapon," he said. "Although the best possible answer to the Communist tag tied on the movie industry would be the making of better pictures, Hollywood will probably crawl back into its shell for about two years and produce even less imaginative pictures...