Word: good
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good players have their reward-free games to those who reverence the machine and will not tilt, who use the flippers at the right time and the right place. When the final score is all added up in the end, the machine, with its unfailing precision, indicates how many more games can be played without the insertion of a nickel...
That is true of most of the other stories, as well. First, the writing in itself is not funny and too often the plot, which could be secondary in a good bit of humorous writing, isn't worthy of telling. And, second, there is little pleasure to be found in the mere style of the various contributors. The writer of this issue's editorial and a past contributor to the "At the Pleasure" series, is an exception to this latter, however...
...steelmen met in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria last week for the American Iron & Steel Institute's annual convention, Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer, Harry Truman's good-will ambassador to U.S. business, brought them mixed tidings. For one thing, they were not alone in their doldrums; in April, Sawyer's economists had reported, the sales of all manufacturers slumped $1.2. billion from March to the lowest monthly total ($16.9 billion) this year. But Sawyer was optimistic : the gross national output, as he pointed out later in the week, was still running ahead of 1948, there...
...become his Boswell. "[They] always wished me otherwise than it has pleased God to make me ... People expected from me some modest expression, humbly setting forth the total unworthiness of my person and my work ... I believed in God and in Nature, and in the triumph of good over evil; but this was not enough for pious souls: I was also required to believe other points, which were opposed to the feeling of my soul for truth...
Nine years ago, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, an overworked schoolteacher in upstate New York, bowled over the nation's critics with his first novel, a precision-built tour de force called The Ox-Bow Incident. Its firm, restrained handling of the problem of good and evil arising from a mob lynching crowned Clark with the halo of great promise. Five years later came The City of Trembling Leaves, a long, rambling study of sensitive youth in Reno, Nev., which made readers wonder if Ox-Bow had not been an accident of perfection. His new novel will keep them wondering...