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...other newspaper, editors can't be blamed for wanting to lay some of the burden down-like the full text of treaties, which possibly interested 5% of the readers. But the general reader now misses valuable documentation that he might be happy to read. The Times merely excerpted Saul Bellow's Nobel acceptance speech. It played as the day's most important story the Supreme Court decision on low-cost housing in the suburbs. The story was well reported and analyzed by Lesley Oelsner, but the Times printed not one full sentence from either the majority...
...they tolerated hip flasks of bourbon and Scotch. But there were also elements of the New South: many of the majorettes in the inaugural parade were black, and at the ball, after some foot-stomping folk dances by the Grandfather Mountain Cloggers, the North Carolina Dance Theater performed an excerpt from The Nutcracker. Said Hunt: ''We have to involve people, and we simply must be more creative in asking them to get involved...
...fifties," recalls Kay Summersby Morgan in a forthcoming book. Past Forgetting-My Love Affair with Dwight D. Eisenhower. Summersby, who served as Ike's chauffeur, confidante and companion during much of World War II, wrote the book shortly before she died last year of cancer. An excerpt from her memoir, which appears in the December Ladies ' Home Journal, tells about off-duty hours spent together, mutual professions of love and, despite Ike's marriage to Mamie, plans for children. "We would sit on the sofa in the living room, listen to records, have a couple of drinks...
...real pitfall of this issue is its prose, such as this excerpt from the passage on Bessie Smith...
Possibly Hughes should have spent less time accumulating his billions and more time learning to spell. He added, in an excerpt of a memo TIME printed, a final e to the words "negro" and "potato." Money can't buy everything...