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Whether the characterizations in this little fable were correct or not is debatable. But the idea of portraying Loeb people as animals was unquestionably a stroke of genius. Like animals, they (a) growl, (b) bite, and (c) growl and bite each other more than the common enemy. Maybe this is characteristic of theatre people everywhere, but it was certainly true of the Loeb community in the Spring...
Died. George Magerkurth, 77, National League umpire from 1929 to 1947, a 6-ft.-4-in. ex-heavyweight boxer with a bulldog face and a growl to match, who set the tone of his career by bouncing John J. McGraw in the first game he worked, became the terror of such bench jockeys as Leo Durocher, Frankie Frisch, Mel Ott, and anyone else with the temerity to question his calls, at one time or another heaving pop bottles back at the stands, breaking the jaw of a catcher who attacked him, and thrashing a fan who did likewise; of pneumonia...
...nation's giant banking, commercial and industrial corporations. In its expensive northern suburbs, artistically wrought steel burglar bars cover the windows of elegant homes, where watchdogs growl on the door mats and swimming pools sparkle on the spacious grounds. Surrounding the city, but separated from it by a green band of no man's land, are African townships where hundreds of thousands of blacks live in government-built mass housing units...
...sentences until reeled the mind." Our sentences no longer run backward (or hardly ever), but the spoofs continue. More recently, The New Yorker commented on our occasional tendency to use active, colorful verbs, and claimed that people in our pages always "groan, coo, snarl, taunt, thunder, chortle, crack, intone, growl, drawl," etc. The same article suggested that the reason for TIME'S liveliness can be found in the masthead, which lists dozens of female researchers whose "pulse-quickening" presence "peps up TIME'S denizens." TIME'S masthead also fascinated Playwright William Saroyan, who had a character...
...Gushy. Both Osgood and Frank agreed that Communist China's aggressive big mouth may be a result of its fear of American power-sheer "bluster and growl" to ward off a powerful competitor. Frank even suggested therapy. "In approaching a deeply suspicious person," he cautioned, "it does not pay to be too friendly. Since he is convinced that you mean him no good, he is prone to misinterpret an overly friendly manner as an effort to put something over on him. So a firm, reserved, but not unfriendly manner makes more headway than effusiveness." In many ways, Frank...