Word: excerpt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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NEWSPAPERMEN generally keep a sharp eye on TIME'S Press section, which always keeps a sharp eye on them. Last week Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Political Reporter Frank M. Matthews prefaced a story with an excerpt from TIME'S Oct. 8 Press report, "The Campaign Trail": "The Nixon and Stevenson campaign tours are models of efficiency. The pampered newsmen with Stevenson need not even bother to register at their hotel stopovers." Then Pittsburgh Reporter Matthews whooped: "Well, Mr. Luce and TIME Magazine, we've got news...
...Worst. Two days later in Harrisburg he made his first campaign "saturation" speech (on all major TV networks-cost: more than $200,000).* The slick program opener: a film clip of the famed Joe Smith incident at the Republican Convention (TIME. Sept. 3), followed by the filmed excerpt of Stevenson's postnomination speech calling for an open race for the vice-presidential nomination. Later, straining to put himself across in person, Adlai threw a wild punch when he declared that "the President is not master in his own house," implied that the country was being run by Richard Nixon...
...seized his own creator, Britain's Novelist C. S. (The African Queen) Forester, and, ever bolstered by readers clamoring for more, will not let him go. In Britain's weekly Spectator, Author Forester last week disclosed the agony to which his hero has long subjected him. Excerpt from Ballade to an Old Friend: I set Your Lordship in the House of Peers- / But you have brought me many a quid pro quo / Because we've been together twenty years . . . / Yet horrid Horry mawkish matelot, / Obnoxious more, I think, to friend than foe, / Your very name excruciates...
...Perry Como to plug a passel of Lucky lyrics, Floridian Luck anted up $500 of his own savings plus $350 from his real-estate man papa, bought a month's space on a huge (20 ft.-by-60 ft.) billboard near Times Square to make his plea public. Excerpt from Luck's open letter to Como: "I pray that you will give me the chance to meet you and maybe hear you sing one of my numbers." Easygoing Crooner Como gee-whizzed, promised to give Composer Luck's songs a hearing, maybe a warbling...
...Rebellion Tree stood for open defiance during the nineteenth Century. The spirit it engendered in the undergraduate becomes clear in an excerpt from a poem entitled "The Rebellion," written by a student in memory of the Riot of 1819: "But Oh! the Sophs! their frantic yells Were louder far than lecture bells They form'd a ring about the Tree, And to this solemn oath agree: 'By This Almighty Plant, we swear. 'We will not flinch a single hair 'Until the laws of College rot, 'And government is sent...