Word: itemizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist proposal, which Sir Winston Churchill found promising (see FOREIGN NEWS), contained several boobytraps. Item: with two Communist-controlled members (Poland and Czechoslovakia) and one other nation (India) which inclines to share Red China's view of the war, the commission's membership would be loaded against the allies. Item: the U.N. Command was appalled at. the prospect of Polish and Czechoslovak troops (i.e., Communists) forming 40% of the strength of the "neutral" guard protecting the rights of the prisoners who do not want to return to Communist control. Item: the Communists still insisted that any prisoners...
...week, Influence Peddler Henry Grunewald lowered his bursitis-racked bulk into the witness chair of the House subcommittee investigating the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Each time he dropped enough names and dollar signs to whet the investigators' appetites, then retreated into playful forgetfulness or plain refusal to answer. Items: ¶On his 1948 tax return was this item: "Presidential election bets, $20,000." Said Grunewald: "I bet on Harry Truman when everybody else dropped him." Where did he place the bet? With Miami Bookmaker Harold Salvey, a Kefauver committee witness now under indictment for income tax evasion...
...Thoughtful newsmen know that the facts alone seldom can, that they speak clearly only when they are told in proper order and perspective-and thus interpreted-by an honest journalist. Nevertheless, many a U.S. editor still damns interpretive reporting and sticks to his fetish of "objectivity," though the briefest item in his newspaper may, in fact, be interpretive reporting. Last week Palmer Hoyt's Denver Post thought it time to read such editors a lecture on the facts of journalistic life. Said the Post...
...female, have also shown progress in another respect. "In 1936-37," said the N.E.A., "from 26.6 to 31.8% . . . were married. Now only 25.3% are single." ¶ To provide that air of studied insouciance that Ivy Leaguers are supposed to enjoy, the Harvard Coop has started selling a strange new item: "Dusty Bucks" -white shoes that had been specially treated to look ever so slightly worn and ever so slightly dirty. ¶ Within a few days of each other, Fisk and Howard Universities became the first and second Negro universities to install chapters of Phi Beta Kappa. ¶ Appointment...
...Item: Results of the Yearbook poll show that 80.4 percent of the College community reads the CRIMSON regularly, 7.5 percent reads the Advocate, and 12.1 percent reads the Lampoon. April...