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Experts in the Trade. Its crack reporter Hildy Johnson (nicely played by Lew Parker) and its cold-blooded managing editor Walter Burns (badly muffed by Arnold Moss) still lived up to the public's conception of the Fourth Estate: they buried the hatchet to bring off a beat; Hildy kept his girl waiting at the altar, as a good reporter should; and Burns double-crossed Hildy to keep him, as a good editor must...
Pravda's No.1 hatchet man, David Zaslavsky, came out swinging savagely. He tried to pin on Atkinson the practice (Pravda's own practice, incidentally) of reckless and scurrilous fiction-mongering. He portrayed him as a "commercial traveler" for a typical capitalist newspaper enterprise, whose only job was to produce, by fabrication or distortion, the sort of news his bosses wanted to print...
Some of Rio's most recent crimes have reached the top strata of lurid violence. Samples: 1) borrowing a time-worn page from the Aztecs, a boy cut out his beloved's heart; 2) using a sharp hatchet, a man chopped his wife into small pieces as she lay in bed with their two-year-old daughter. Last week the Latin American Congress of Criminologists picked Rio as the site of their 1946 convention...
When Faustina Setti, 50-year-old frugal spinster, plunked down her savings (30,000 lire) on the promise that the poetess would find her a mate, Mona Leonarda proffered a glass of drugged wine, then felled the spinster with a hatchet, chopped her into nine pieces, and kept the change...
...spiritually strong. . . . Overpowering events . . . have given the grinning, gum-chewing Missourian new stature, new dignity, new confidence-but no pomp. [He] is less of an autocratic figure than any White House incumbent since Taft. There is no 'crackdown' in his system. Even those who have the hatchet out for Truman . . . acknowledge his determined honesty. . . ." There were those who sought to smear him, said Considine, but Harry Truman was a man's kind of man, as American as ham & eggs...