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...associates professionally, as it were, with perverts, hopheads, gunmen and bums of all kinds, and he sometimes gets in the habit of popping them a few times, in the privacy of the station house, just for their own good. Being human, he may take a certain natural satisfaction in his prowess and may even decide that he is helping create a better world. He is encouraged in this by the fact that society seldom pays any attention; society, in fact, seldom hears the sound of scuffling, the grunts and the thud of fist on flesh...
...writer of B pictures for years, 42-year-old Dore Schary never got into the habit of throwing money around. At RKO, he has cut down the costly time of shooting a full-length picture to as little as 19 days (the industry average is 45 to 70 days); he has been known to leave as little as 200 feet on the cutting-room floor in editing a film. This has been done by cutting scripts to the last adjective, working out every twist of plot before shooting starts. (Many a director still makes up the plot as he goes...
...great best-sellers." Fielding, Pritchett says, is the granddaddy of them all: in his work the reader can not only "pick out the perennial characters of the main part of English fiction, but . . . many of its idiosyncrasies and limits. Sociable man, social problems, middle-class humor, the didactic habit, the club culture, the horseplay, the gregarious rather than the single...
With the taste of military manhandling still fresh on its palate, the University's ex-service contingent has been quick to continue the war-years habit of beefing at administrative irritants. Some of the best hard luck stories have centered about the minor inconveniences and alleged major short-comings in the conduct of the Hygiene Department. But the sideswipes have been scattered. Only this summer when concerned students began organized agitation did the question of the University's medical service-its efficiency and its expenses-assume significant proportions...
...definite idea of the way his job should be done. "The only way to develop linemen is by rough work. To be efficient, a man must learn the fundamentals early and then practice them again and again. Repetition is the key: a lineman is a creature of habit. The way to develop the right habits is to make a daily repetition of the conditions that make the habit necessary...