Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Choral Voice. While their words spread out across their world, John, 59, and Mike Cowles, 55, hold two or three half-hour phone calls a week, brief each other on their sessions with distinguished friends. They seldom need to coordinate editorial viewpoints. John may be closer to the famous-Nehru, Eden, Eisenhower -and Mike may lead a more spectacular private life: his present wife is his fourth; his third was tempestuous Fleur Cowles, editor of the avant-gaudy monthly Flair, which failed after twelve issues in 1951. But with identical backgrounds (Exeter, Harvard, Des Moines city rooms), the two brothers...
...Gilbert Leroy ("Buddy") Dial, 21, Rice; 6 ft. 1 in., 180 lbs. Senior. Major: physical education. Not notably fast but extraordinarily shifty and sure-handed on offense; blossomed this year on defense, piled up end sweeps, helped his team hold Army's famed halfbacks Anderson and Dawkins to 19 yds. rushing in 14 carries. The pros like him, but feel he must add a good deal of weight to withstand the inevitable pounding a player gets in the big time...
...also monumental and imposing. Placing a building on stilts (pilotis) has been modern architectural fashion ever since France's Le Corbusier introduced it back in the 1920s. But rarely has a column in concrete had such handsome treatment as Nervi evolved for the 72 paired columns that hold the seven-story Secretariat some 16 ft. in the air. Tapered from a rectangular cross section at the top to a near oval at the base, they have all the elegance of classical porticoes...
...whose relatively small (3,500 members) union has an offer of a $1,000,000 strike loan from the powerful Teamsters union: "The pilots are fighting for something that doesn't belong to them. We're fighting for our lives, and we're going to hold...
...first crime of the detective stories is that they can no longer hold even such a willing victim as Jacques Barzun in any suspense. Writers nowadays try to create suspense by merely delaying the story with digressions, or by causing the characters to become confused: " 'He had stopped understanding things over an hour ago.' The idea is that the reader, also bewildered, will feel breathlessly eager to recover his wits and will call the anxiety suspense. Mind is explicitly excluded." Moreover, the new detective fiction is badly put together ("The prevailing impression is of writing by a gifted...