Word: goings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know what the hell's the matter with me." Reporters asked him about a walnut-sized lump on his forehead and he said it was a souvenir of the last Tony Zale fight. Was he punchy? Rocky went on: "Every place I go it's 'What's this bribe story?' or 'What's with the Army?' It's as if I was ready to go to jail." He thought he'd see a doctor. He thought he would go see New York's Boxing Commissioner Eddie Eagan...
...They are all experts at trimming and polishing copy, as well as heading it up. They are not hampered by the shibboleths of most copy desks (Newsmen may end heads with prepositions). The News copydeskers are well-paid men by copydesk standards: they start at $110 a week and go up to $140, plus bonuses for prize heads...
...Confusion. Not that Editor Heiskell was in any hurry to let go. At 76, he still gets to his office about 8 in the morning. The office, piled high with books and papers, is more cluttered than William Allen White's used to be at another famed Gazette, in Emporia. Once a reporter asked for a typewriter he had seen buried in the office, and Heiskell crustily denied that it was there. A janitor dug in and found not one machine but six. "If they'd dug a little deeper," cracked a newsman, "they'd probably have...
Unhappily the hobo's gift of the gab makes him tedious as well as fascinating; and the elderly capers, if picturesque at times, at other times turn rancid. Obviously pleased with his own joke, Playwright McEnroe sometimes lets it run on too long, sometimes lets it go too far. What tremendously braces The Silver Whistle's very shaky charm is José Ferrer's very assured performance. A master of florid roles, a born Cyrano de Bergeractor, Ferrer spouts and yarnspins with an air, never trades tinseled make-believe for drab reality...
...less than $14 million. And 32% of what the tenant pays in maintenance charges can be deducted for tax purposes-which Kirkeby feels "means something to tenants like, we will have." More than half the present Hampshire House apartments have already been sold, said he, and the plan will go into effect...