Word: dispatched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Louis Post-Dispatch: "The soldier-turned-candidate did not have all the answers. That in itself is refreshing . . . Dwight Eisenhower has lots more to say . . . that means lots more to learn. But he learns fast...
...Thurber Album has some fine stuff about his city editor on the Columbus Dispatch. He disliked college men, contemptuously called Thurber "Phi Beta Kappa" (which he was), and could intone it "so that it sounded like a Girl Scout's merit badge." He came to like Thurber, but he never liked fancy writing, which he always greeted with "This story is in bloom!" Other good men well remembered are Cartoonist Billy Ireland (a man so kind he once complimented a friend's wife with "Edna, that's the prettiest washing out there I ever saw"), several profs...
...Alison Lurie describes the dilemna of a young graduate who must choose a life's work. The graduate played by Tom Kennedy must select among Junno and wealth, Venus and artistic fame or Minerva and scholarship. Smith an obstinate fellow will have none of them and the goddesses immediately dispatch him to points unmentionable. Despite an overlong ending, the performance is thoroughly enjoyable...
...Blame. He blamed the accident on the destroyer's captain, Lieut. Commander William J. Tierney, 32, of Philadelphia. He noted that the skipper had received a dispatch the day before from the destroyer squadron commander calling for "prompt and resolute action [in performing maneuvers], even at the expense of an occasional mistake . . ." He suggested that it might have "affected the attitude" of Commander Tierney in handling the ship...
Publishers of 213 U.S. newspapers, polled by Public-Relations Man Edward L. Bernays for their opinions as to the ten best dailies, nominated (in order of their preference): The New York Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Christian Science Monitor, Louisville Courier-Journal, Kansas City Star, New York Herald Tribune, Chicago Daily News, Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, and Milwaukee Journal...