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...broker of all these deals is a man named Smith Davis. A complete record of his tradings is not available, for a basic Davis credo is "my business is mystery." His trick is to bring together publishers who usually don't speak to each other on their editorial pages. He has sold conservative papers to liberals and liberal papers to conservatives, with a cheerful irreverence for editorial principles-except when they can be calculated as part of a paper's balance sheet...
...they had come to Cairo for the express purpose of killing Moyne, they said. Tsouri and Hakim had leaped on the running board of Lord Moyne's car. Hakim had shot the Minister, Tsouri had stabbed his chauffeur to death. Then the prisoners began to expound the Stern credo of violence. They justified the assassination as an act of war against a foreign invader (Britain). Austere Mahmoud Mansour Bey, the presiding judge, tried vainly to halt the torrent of burning words. At last he ordered reporters not to record them. The prisoners, he ruled, could not use an Egyptian...
...Ruppel, 41, is a stocky, 6-ft. hellraiser, raised in Brooklyn and adept at hurling four-letter words out of either side of his mouth. He went ashore with the Marines at Kwajalein, has since been relieved from active duty. His three-word journalistic credo is: "Lots of sock." He took over as $40,000-a-year executive editor two months ago. At first the rumbles were confined to the Herald-American building, where he was engaged in shaking up his staff. Then he got out on the street, in trick headlines. Sample Ruppel banner when the Allies retook...
Author Werfel's personal credo: everything in the universe has meaning. The world is "a creation of spirit and love," and man can realize God's existence without being able to understand His Being, "just as one might touch a mountain without being able to embrace...
...employs at each stage a predominant theme from a well-known spiritual. At the Kyrie, the theme of Nobody Knows de Trouble I've Seen invokes the mercy of the Lord, and at the Gloria, Go Down, Moses proclaims His glory. For the profession of faith at the Credo there is the theme of Blow Your Trumpet, Gabriel. At the Sanctus and Benedictus ("Blessed is He that cometh in the Name of the Lord") are the melo dies of Goin' Home and Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, and at the Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) the devout and placid...