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...city editor of Oklahoma City's Daily Oklahoman read a Page One feature story in the Times, the Oklahoman's afternoon sister-paper, and smelled a "helluva good story." The Times (circ. 114,870) told about an elderly couple whose little country home had been sold at a public sale for $1.13 because they owed that much in taxes-which they didn't even know about. City Editor , Ralph Sewell showed the clip to Reporter Bill Van Dyke. "Bill," said he, "they didn't name the so-and-so who got the property...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Who Is Ted Smith? | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

...dewy-eyed, I hereby recommend that everyone become a war correspondent. True, there are occasional discomfitures, sometimes made of lead and steel, but by and large, and I'm serious, it's a remarkable opportunity for good descriptive writing. And as in newspaper work anywhere, you get a helluva lot better picture of what's going on out here than anyone can get from reading the censored reports. Finally, you know, every war correspondent always writes a book when he gets home and makes half a million bucks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letter from Korea | 5/24/1951 | See Source »

...Helluva Lot More. Last week when The Croaker left for good to attend to his private practice in San Rafael and the orange and lemon trees on his ten-acre place at nearby Fairfax, he turned his cons over to a medical staff of 13 doctors and four nurses, plus a host of part-time specialists. "They get," he says, "a damn sight better attention than I could afford for myself. It's a helluva lot more than most of 'em deserve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Croaker | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

...Somewhat watered down from the stage version: New York, New York ("A helluva town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Jan. 2, 1950 | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

Sneath kept trying. To the master of another distinguished school he wrote: "You will doubtless remember old Tubby Sneath-well, it will give you a helluva shock, you old bounder, because last year I took the headship here . . . Listen, Stinker, quite seriously, Selhurst is having a beano for its 300th anniversary on June 19. Could you come down, old boy, and give us a sermon on the Sunday?" Returned the headmaster's secretary, on the distinguished man's behalf: "Obviously not meant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Selhurst's Tercentenary | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

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