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Missing out in Omaha was a keen disappointment to Publisher Newhouse. Having repeatedly demonstrated his ability to make losing papers pay, he now prefers the pleasure and challenge of making profitable papers pay more. But the defeat was perhaps endurable to a man who has other ways to spend his money,* and who in the course of collecting all or part of 19 dailies, has reached in vain for 25 more...
Richard III is early Shakespeare, and it is also very windy Shakespeare. More princes rant, more queens keen, and more nobles bemoan than in any play of comparable length (there are, to be sure, very few plays of comparable length). Richard himself is certainly villainous and unscrupulous, even though the only motive ever put forward for his villainy is simply that he enjoys himself no end by being consummately nasty. But he is better than villainous: he is memorable. And he is memorable because he refuses to take the rantings of his fellows seriously. Everything they say is humbug...
...bailiwick, your report on Love, McNichols, Dominick and Carroll was equally impartial and keen...
...breaks it all up, and war comes to the Jenkinses appropriately enough with the arrival of a general in a motorcar. A visiting uncle is heard to mutter: "Never driven one in my life. Not too keen on 'em. Always involved in accidents. Some royalty in a motorcar have been involved in a nasty affair today...
...determined to govern as long as the House will have it-or at least until John Diefenbaker senses an advantageous issue on which to go to the country. Nobel Prizewinner Lester B. Pearson's opposition Liberals, controlling 100 seats and sensing that their time is ripe, are equally keen to bring the Tories down for an election, if possible before Christmas. The government's life thus hangs by the thread of approval of two minor parties that hold the tender balance of power: the right-wing Social Credit (30 seats) and the socialist New Democratic (18 seats), whose...