Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their toll. Last year 22 dailies were suspended or merged, leaving 82% of all U.S. towns and cities that have newspapers with only one daily (v. about 40% in 1900). The Washington Times-Herald recently found rising costs too much to bear, sold out to Eugene Meyer and Philip Graham of the Washington Post. High costs have also made starting a big, new daily virtually impossible without millions in reserve capital...
Thanks to the work of Miss Fales, says Graham R. Taylor, Jr., director of Student Employment, "the incidence of students leaving their jobs during examination periods has become negligible...
...Flaw in the Crystal by Godfrey Smith (Putnam; $3.50) is a brightly written, sprightly little tour de force that is all the more remarkable from a 23-year-old writing his first novel. It is about two young Englishmen involved in London high jinks and international low life. Graham Several, a financial wizard, is the crystal. Roger Meredith, a civil servant, is assigned by the Foreign Office to find the flaw. If there is no flaw in Several's loyalty, he is to be sent abroad on a vital secret mission. Meredith's search leads through the brilliant...
Evangelist Billy Graham, at the end of his glory-road revival tour of Greater London (TIME, May 31), dropped in at No. 10 Downing Street for a chat with Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Beamed Billy later: "I felt as if I were shaking hands with Mr. History." Meanwhile, the Charlotte (N.C.) Observer, in a report from London, told its readers how it feels to be Mrs. Billy Graham. Confided Ruth Graham to the Observer's observer: "Just pray for a thick skin and a tender heart. You need it when people just stare coldly and call you a racketeer...
...locker room of Washington's Burning Tree Country Club, Washington Post and Times Herald Publisher Philip Graham turned to the man next to him. "Your wife," he said, "is costing me a lot of money." Replied Dwight D. Eisenhower: "How do you mean?" Explaining that the Post had paid dearly ($2,400) to serialize Dorothy Brandon's Mamie Doud Eisenhower, A Portrait of a First Lady, Graham went on : "The articles cost me so much that I asked my circulation man what he thought. You know what he said? 'Mamie...