Word: hawking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sunday Punch. For 34 years, until he quit in 1942 after a quarrel with the Astors, hawk-nosed Editor J. L. Garvin had thrust his greatness upon the Observer and thumped British breakfast tables with his stubborn leaders, often three or four columns long. "The English Sunday," said a rival, "would be incomplete without his weekly thunderstorm." When Garvin parted with the Astors, Fleet Streeters bet that the Observer would collapse. But today, a team rather than a one-man show, the Observer is a sounder paper, if a less disturbing...
Outsider In. Six months ago, old (66) hawk-nosed Sosthenes Behn was jarred into relaxing his one-man control of the International Telephone & Telegraph. Insurgent stockholders, led by Financier Clendenin Ryan, had succeeded in electing seven (out of 23) directors (TIME, Jan. 5). Last week, Behn voluntarily relaxed some more control. He stepped out as president (remaining as chairman and chief executive officer), got his new board to bring in an outsider: A.T.&T.'s operations & engineering chief, Vice President William H. Harrison...
...London, the seventh Duke of Wellington, great-grandson of the hawk-nosed original, dutifully opened an exhibition of modern sculpture with an appropriate speech, but midway raised his own gallinaceous nose and broke out: "And now about modern sculpture-I really cannot make out what it is all about...
...Miracle of Itri. There was little violence. Carabinieri stationed around polling places merely kept the crowds moving (the Reds tried to slow up the voting wherever they could), and minded babies while mothers cast their ballots. Some Communist members of the election boards tried, despite hawk-eyed poll watchers of the major parties, to invalidate ballots-the slightest blemish on a ballot was enough for the purpose. (One Italian columnist implored his female readers to remove their lipstick before wetting the flap of the ballot "just as if you were giving a little kiss to a man with a suspicious...
Ruminant. In Black Hawk County, Iowa, Farmer Sheldon Anton finally spotted the cause of an old lump on his cow's flank when he noticed twelve inches of pitchfork handle protruding from her ribs...