Word: harmlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Radioman Hofheinz broadcast a defense of the editors, added: "There may be those who say that Hoiles is a harmless crackpot. A man backed with a reputed $20 million and a chain of newspapers cannot be classed as a harmless crackpot." It looked as if Hoiles might have to mend his editorials, if he wanted to stay in the valley...
...Harmless Crackpot? Then Houston Lawyer-Industrialist Roy Hofheinz, 39, who had opened a 50,000-watt radio station, KSOX, in Harlingen, joined the attack on Hoiles in an all-out crusade over the air. His station also began taking ads away from the Hoiles papers. Partly because he was pinched by this competition, and partly because they disagreed with him, Hoiles fired the three editors who had stayed on when he bought the papers...
...hatched in the closing lines of magazine articles. It is more important to bring the news that Russia is not irresistible; that the regime cannot be changed by persuasion or inward force; that it depends, however, for its life on the capitalist West and that to render it harmless we need only freeze the cold war solid, and isolate Russia; and that we must use the years of waiting, during which, armed but inact've, we watch our enemy weaken, to promote this counter-reformation of the West...
Relying on his gift for guidance, Schaas-berg prescribed simple remedies, such as an herbal tea from the local chemist's, or what he calls "harmless drops." Even the Latin names for the prescriptions "just came" to him, he claimed. If the patient could not get to Maastricht, but sent a letter with a photograph or a ring enclosed, Schaasberg was willing to treat him by mail...
...deceptively jolly, roly-poly fellow, got his latest beat by his usual hard digging, plus a nose for news which sniffed something worth digging for. While skimming through the records of office calls of RFC officials, he ran across the names of Mrs. Bratten and Shaver. The references sounded harmless, but why were they mentioned at all? When Steele discovered that at the time of the visits, Shaver was listed as an associate in Chase & Williams, a Washington law firm, he thought he had something...