Word: isn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Atwood isn't quite sure how he got to be a TIME correspondent. It began, he remembers, when he started getting wires from TIME about 15 or 16 years ago, asking for information about Alaska. Busy as he was, he obligingly went to work digging up the facts and answered the wires. Said he: "Sometimes the stuff appeared in the magazine; sometimes it didn't. Then I came to New York on business and dropped in on TIME. I was surprised to learn I was listed as a part-time correspondent...
...pleasantly depraved themes. "I hold your hand in mine," be croons gently, adding later, "if only you were here." "Be Prepared!" is his rousing exhortation to the Boy Scouts, "to hold your liquor well." Then he goes on to advise his little friends, "Never solicit for your sister. It isn't nice . . . , unless you get a good percentage of the price...
...voted Republican had "helped to turn the clock back to Hoover." ¶ An unofficial party auxiliary, the C.I.O. Political Action Committee, reported that it was keeping a record of how much time Dwight Eisenhower spends golfing and fishing. "We are not implying any criticism or any suggestion that he isn't working hard enough," a P.A.C. spokesman ex plained. "All we're interested in is results...
...Baumer and what do they find but a zist on the gooms. He couldn't hardly eat no Sunday dinner. A nice goose I had, too.") Sid Sorokin gets fed up and quits Sleep Tite. taking his luscious redhead with him, but the exact resolution of the plot isn't really important to Author Bissell or anyone else. It is the natural talk, the sure feeling for the pace of Midwestern life, the shrewd humor of such scenes as the union picnic, that make 7½ Cents, slight as it is, an oddly likable piece of Americana...
...over the knuckles, told him not to be naughty again. Pages promptly resigned. Six other staff members also quit, including Cartoonist Antonio Arias Bernal, whose cover drawings had been Hoy's bestselling assets. Said a friend: "Pages had 3 pesos in his pocket when he left, but he isn't going to compromise. He is a Quixote...