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...bulletin board. Like U.S. radio, the press dealt in news, entertainment and commercials; the amount of each might differ, but the ingredients were the same. Patterson's mixture called for health hints and horoscopes, patterns and etiquette, advice for the lovelorn and tips on the horses-and compelling, habit-forming comics. Most of the strips that helped his lusty tabloid grow were named by him (Dick Tracy, Orphan Annie, Moon Muttins, etc.), often after a thoughtful thumbing of the telephone book. All the artists felt his sensitive, shrewd touch. From Caniff he wanted adventure, suspense, and pretty women...
...minority aboard it, as always, were the sobersided, skilled skiers, usually in well-worn clothes. They did their best to ignore the "snow bunnies"-the partying, dressed-to-kill wing of the amateurs. Snow bunnies had a habit of weaving off the snow, and often went tumbling downhill like Jack & Jill...
Impatient & Infirm. In short, Byrnes is a practical politician with the limitations and assets of that breed. Among the limitations is the habit of not making decisions until they are forced upon him. While Byrnes has been saddled with negotiations on Europe, no U.S. policy ha's been made in wide areas of the world. The U.S. Palestine policy as enunciated by Truman was mere mischievous vote-catching, as unrealistic in its extreme pro-Zionism as the Grand Mufti's antiSemitism. No one is really making policy on Latin America. On China, a key piece...
...environment in the world, doesn't like to be told anything. Rabble rousers and the Hearst press can fool him easily with sly propaganda, but direct instruction, though conducted with the finest intentions, leaves him cold and unaffected. In effect, the Army was trying to break a bad American habit by one hour of orientation a week...
...Commerce Department, in a helpful little guidebook for veterans in search of a job, pointed out that it is risky to start a restaurant, because 80% fail or are sold out within five years. But it hastily added that running a restaurant can be good business and that the habit of eating will continue to grow...