Word: guys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quite a few of Axelrod's letters begin "You're the kind of guy I want to work for," and are from experienced weavers, loom-fixers, fashion designers, buyers, superintendents, salesmen, workers from nearby mills, from all over New England, and from Pennsylvania, North and South Carolina, Delaware, New York, California, Florida, Georgia and Alabama. Others are from novices who want to enroll in Axelrod's school in textile technique...
Part of TIME'S $1.48 goes into a more or less clumsy effort to tell the reader what kind of guy Piers is, or why he tries to grow turnips or what are the chances that he'll set fire to the haystack and burn up his house, wife and children; in short, to tell, across the 20th Century community's backyards of specialization, complexity and confusion, what the news is, and to tell it in such a way that its hearer will take it in and be able...
...take no risk whatever except when conscience compels us. We should not expend any 'risk' for the sake of having a scoop, for the sake of being the 'wise guy,' for the sake of attracting attention or being entertaining. . . . We must be scrupulously careful not to confuse what is happening with what we devoutly wish may happen...
...boredom can be as tough on the nerves as bombardment. The only war the crew of the AK 601 can fight is against their captain, who makes life tough for others because life was tough for him. The crew's great hero is Lieut, (j.g.) Roberts, a "quiet guy who, while sweating to get transferred to the real fight, keeps in trim scrapping with the skipper. But when the captain refuses the crew a desperately needed shore leave, Mr. Roberts, to get it for them, promises to toe the line. The amazed and disgusted crew thinks that Mr. Roberts...
...other architects could get around antiquated building codes to cut costs. Wurdeman thinks that "they just haven't presented their cases right." The partners, who netted $125,000 apiece last year, are still penny-conscious. Says Wurdeman: "I just wouldn't know how to act if a guy would say 'I don't give a damn how much it costs...