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...sense-making 30 minutes, with the emphasis switched from news to guest stars. Last week, Preview took an editorial look at the phrasemaking of Winston Churchill. Then it turned quickly to such eye-catching items as the Katherine Dunham dancers, Singer Eugenie Baird, Cinemactor Kirk Douglas. It was a crisp, entertaining, fast-paced show, and its climbing Hooperating put it right up in the first ten. But it was no longer a news-reporting "magazine of the air." More & more, McCrary's Preview was beginning to look like that old TV standby-vaudeville...
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Secretary of State Dean Acheson was just the man for the job, declared Hearstling Handwriting Expert Muriel Stafford, after a look at the crisp Acheson script. "It is interesting," she pointed out, "that both General Marshall and Dean Acheson write a firm, left-slanted writing. Both are reserved men, clear, swift thinkers, and strong willed . . . Dean Acheson has the added gift of intuition, shown in his quickly written, disconnected writing ... Low capitals indicate a modest man . . . he is also extremely literary. This is a cultured writing in the finest sense of the word...
When he was teaching about Sam Johnson, Professor Chauncey Tinker seemed a good deal like the great Samuel himself. He was a crisp and courtly figure, far from the "man of most dreadful appearance" Boswell wrote about, but he spoke in coffee-house prose, and like Johnson, he knew how to command attention. For more than 25 years, Chauncey Brewster Tinker's Yale classroom was one of the two or three most popular on campus...
...recurred in a cycle. But the streamlined look of the girl playing the sports has continually progressed. By 1928 the red serge bloomers were well above the knee, and a few years later red pleated shorts trimmed the players' figures. At present simple white tennis dresses gives a clean, crisp look to the gym classes...