Word: interests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stories hard to read? Too many long sentences and too many Latin words. Irt Flesch's "standard" writing (i.e., "what the average American will read with ease and interest"), a sentence should contain not more than 19 words; 100 words not more than 150 syllables. A readable story should also contain at least 6% "personal" words (names and personal pronouns) and 12% "personal" sentences (questions, commands, requests...
...years to raise $5,000 which she hopes might persuade someone into giving new information about the old, dead case. When the reporter (James Stewart) first looks her up, he has no doubts of her son's (Richard Conte) guilt; he merely plays her story for its human interest. It is good "circulation copy" and he follows it up industriously. But soon he begins to smell something fishy...
...When he tries to muscle in, he discovers, in a sourly amusing scene in which modern business methods are explained to him, that mere brute force is helpless against the intricacies of interlocking corporate structure. Aside from this scene, the movie has little interest except for some good work by Kirk Douglas and Wendell Corey as Burt's enemies, some spasms of fair melodrama and plain brutality. Lizabeth Scott walks through the show-in a manner presumably intended as alluring-as if she were lying asleep on a vertical...
Walter Brown Shows Interest...
...debate over quadrennial versus annual interest in amateur athletics is seeping into every corner of the U.S. sports panorama. The showdown should come in July at the track Olympics in London...