Word: dourness
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...truth that most newspapermen would hoot at in a barroom is one in which most of them also privately believe - that a newspaper is the soul of its city. To Cornelius Tyler, the narrator of Newspaperman Hough's dour novel, the truth is evident, and so is the fact that like other souls, a newspaper can be sold. Well into his 80s and a touch liverish, Tyler writes bitterly - but with enough sense to know why he is bitter - about the decay of a New England newspaper that he once edited, and of the deterioration of the town...
...Russia and the satellite countries take from one to six weeks to obtain. Despite Khrushchev's unwelcoming noises, a record number of Americans (20,000) are expected to sign up for some 40 trips to 60 cities offered by Intourist, the official Soviet travel agency. The experience is dour but instructive. Prices: $10 to $30 per day. All satellite countries are offering special currency-exchange rates to tourists...
Wherever Nikita Khrushchev went last week, he had a shadow. Whether it was Paris, Berlin or Moscow, there at Nikita's elbow was the hulking, impassive Ukrainian, whose short-cropped grey hair and bulldog face were in dour contrast to his gleaming epaulets and the nine rows of gaily colored medal ribbons that adorned his chest. By no accident, the wrecking of the Paris summit coincided with the West's first close-up look at Rodion Malinovsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union and Russia's Minister of Defense...
...City Coroner Henry W. Turkel pleaded for rooters with coronary histories to take things easier at the Giants' new Candlestick Park. But no one seemed to pay much attention to the warning: the Giants were in first place in the National League, thanks in good part to a dour Negro named Sam Jones, one of baseball's most exciting pitchers...
...Terrible-tempered Bette Davis, 52, charged her fourth husband, dour Actor Gary Merrill, 44, with extreme cruelty, asked for alimony, will have a new co-star when she takes The World of Carl Sandburg to Broadway in September...