Word: hyperthyroidal
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...Marshall Field III last week added another $5,000,000-a-year business to his publishing empire. It was an odd buy for the No. 1 "angel" of New Deal literature, who already puts out such evangelically leftist journals as the Chicago Sun, Manhattan's hyperthyroid PM, and the once-conservative monthly Southern Farmer (now run for Field by ex-NYAdministrator Aubrey Williams...
Most of the U.S. press, viewing the proceedings with mixed emotions, called for a fair trial, but no nonsense. Manhattan's hyperthyroid PM warned its readers that Hitler, too, was once a silly-looking seditionist who used his trial as a forum for spreading propaganda and winning new converts. The Chicago Tribune, favorite organ of most of the defendants, wrote indulgently of the "crackpots" who were the victims of a New Deal "smear campaign" against isolationist Congressmen...
Three ex-newsmen labored to cement U.S.-British good will. Major Ralph Ingersoll, editor-on-leave of Marshall Field's hyperthyroid newspaper, PM, was hard at work as an Army Intelligence officer, seldom had cocktail time. Publisher, now Lieut. Commander Barry Bingham was bossing the Navy's press office at General Eisenhower's headquarters. Herbert Agar, ex-editor of Publisher Bingham's Louisville Courier-Journal, showed up cool and well groomed at luncheons and unveilings whenever his boss, U.S. Ambassador Winant, was otherwise engaged...
...photograph of this occasion. Among the hundreds of faces was one which, "despite the conspicuous ordinariness of [its] features, seemed illumined by an emotion unusual even in this crowd. It was a haggard, sickly face; the broad, bushy mustache gave it an artificially wild look; the protruding, hyperthyroid eyes sent forth an exaggerated gleam. . . . The man to whom this face belongs stands apparently alone in the crowd...
...Reader Backer stop wearing PM's heart on his sleeve. Wrote PM's Managing Editor John P. Lewis in an editorial: ". . . The TIME report . . . nailed down the situation and our role in it better than we had been able to do ourselves. . . . 'Hyperthyroid' (take it from TIME) PM . . . appreciates the 'vim' tag but mildly denies 'characteristic shrillness.' Or - maybe I could, be wrong...