Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. James Mcllhany Thomson, 81, longtime publisher-owner (1906-41) of the New Orleans Item, now States & Item, the South's oldest evening daily newspaper, who lambasted the Louisiana tyranny of Huey Long, supported Al Smith for President in 1924, later (1956) became a strict states'-righter; of a heart attack; in Gaylord...
Undersecretary of State Douglas Dillon gave this today as the gist of last weekend's talks between President Eisenhower and Khrushchev on trade, a priority item for the Soviet Premier...
...read your item about Mrs. Margaret Lockwood, [who protested the Internal Revenue Service's attachment of her husband's paycheck by camping with her two infants at the tax collector's desk-Sept. 7]. We had similar troubles with the Internal Revenue Service. They attached my husband's check, and it was either pay up or lose his job. The ironic part of the whole deal was that it was their mistake, and a five-year-old error, at that. Hurrah for Mrs. Lockwood...
...questioning almost every item that went through his office ("If it's to cost a nickel, then the nickel must go through here"), Iowa-born Wilfred McNeil, who never finished high school, got the services to squeeze out hundreds of millions of dollars a year in savings. Example: after his "road agents" (field investigators) found that airplane maintenance was improving, he told the Air Force to quit stocking 2.5 airplanes in spare parts for every operational plane, pared the figure...
...essay in this issue is a two-page item called Sex: the Literary Breakthrough at Harvard Square, which takes notice of the various Harvard love stories published recently by such writers as Harold Brodkey and Jonathan Kozol, and the similar but less facile pieces which, says the Advocate, comprise roughly one-third of all Harvard undergraduate writing. The informative section of this article is really quite interesting: one can hardly have missed making the connection between Brodkey's Sentimental Education, Kozol's novel and other similar work, but it is pleasant to see it done in print with some competent...