Word: hardboiledness
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Marvel of Mobility. Stubborn addicts of the classic whodunit consider the TV Eye a boor. Some paperback browsers, still slavering over Mickey Spillane's sleuthing satyrs, consider him a sissy. But the TV Eye often has more taste than his critics. At his best, he is a healthy step...
In 1953, after a two-year rise from copyboy to overnight editor of Chicago's hardboiled, fast-moving City News Bureau,* brash, blond Bruce Sagan (rhymes with pagan) paid $2,500 for a withered weekly called the Hyde Park Herald. Breathing life into the body and new fire into...
In 1947, after 10 years of covering the Long Beach waterfront, the Los Angeles Examiner's hardboiled, cigar-chomping Ben Reddick hoisted his last drink at Shanghai Red's and moved to a more elegant section of the coastline. For $8,400, Photographer-Reporter Reddick had become owner...
"Dirty Digs." Nothing seems too trifling to pink a sensibility. NBC's files contain a letter in behalf of leather-jacket manufacturers, protesting the jacket's use as "a sort of TV shorthand" for juvenile hoodlums. In Kansas the Independence Reporter ran an editorial accusing the networks of...
"To hell with the big picture," said Toronto Globe and Mail Reporter William Kinmond when he crossed into Red China last May. Instead, hardboiled, inquisitive Bill Kinmond, 42, set out to report on the country in the down-to-earth fashion in which he regularly covers the Ontario legislature. By...