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...doubt, first of all, whether the letter was legitimate, and suspect that some editorial hack, overcome with sentiment at the sight of civilization's annual preparations for the holiday season, penned it himself for the opportunity to reply. And his answer, if subjected to the scrutiny of a logician, would be revealed as evasive and confusing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Press | 12/21/1946 | See Source »

...Peau de Chagrin made him an outstanding figure in French literature, he continued-like a married woman secretly visiting a maison de rendezvous to earn some pin-money-to frequent his former low haunts and degrade the famous Honoré de Balzac to the status of a cheap hack. . . ." In fact, Zweig does a better job of explaining the hack in Balzac than he does in explaining his greatness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Posthumous Portrait | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

...savvy Corum calls the game as he sees it, ignores official scorers and managers (he has been an official scorer himself). Last year, when the scorers charged Hank Greenberg with a twelfth-inning error in the sixth game, Corum calmly said the play was a base hit for Stan Hack. "I told 'em that I could see the play better than anyone else-our broadcasting booth was in left field-and I saw the ball bounce over Hank's head; he never got a glove on it." At 10 o'clock that night, the official scorers decided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Big Noise | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

Undergraduates who deem themselves budding Heywood Brouns, Margaret Bourke-Whites, or just plain hack writers will have their first opportunity of the summer term to achieve their goals Friday night, when the Crimson opens competitions for its news, editorial, business, and photographic boards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Beer Will Flow Like Water At Crimson on Friday Night | 6/25/1946 | See Source »

Brooklyn Dodger fans are used to great suffering. With particular anguish, they can remember the time Hack Wilson was hit on the head by a fly ball while sassing the bleachers; the time three Dodgers tried to slide into the same base at the same time; the time Babe Herman's pants caught fire because he forgot to douse his cigar before putting it in his pocket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Brooklyn Justice | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

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