Word: kipness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year business by "filling gaps" in news reporting. Besides the Washington Letter, "Circulated Privately to Businessmen" (at $18 a year). Kiplinger and his staff turn out a fortnightly tax letter, a fortnightly farm letter, a monthly magazine Changing Times. Last week Kiplinger began filling a fifth gap. "Kip" had discovered that Europe gravely misunderstands U.S. economics, politics, and motives. His answer: a new newsletter. Overseas Postscript, to "explain U.S. trends to foreign businessmen...
Damage Repaired. Kiplinger's energetic coverage of the news has not always brought the rewards he expected. The day after Harry Truman's victory in the 1948 election, Kip's Changing Times was in the mail with a cover story entitled "What Will Dewey Do?" and blaring its "beat" in full-page ads (TIME, Nov. 8, 1948 et seq.). This massive blooper sent the circulation of all the Kiplinger publications plummeting. With characteristic candor, Kip admitted that "I made the mistake." With equally characteristic vigor (staffers estimate that he works as much as 70 or 80 hours...
Readers of Kip's crackling Washington Letter remember the information he passes along, tend to forget the tips and predictions that do not pan out. He consciously styles the letters to make readers feel that they are on a private pipeline to the best-informed Government sources ("Officials aren't worried about deflation, think they can stop it . . ."). Kiplinger writes every line of the Washington Letter himself, sometimes rewrites an item a dozen times to produce what he calls "sweep lines," i.e., sentences that have a single thought to a line, and that end with a punctuation mark...
Finding even one top man in the rest of the field events might be a problem. Pole vaulter Kip Smith, an 11 foot 6 inch performer, is weakly backed by Ken Swan and Don Richards, who have not yet gone over 11 feet. Broad jumper Bob Hill, who hovers around 20 feet, is the sole man in that event who could even place against strong opposition...
...Kip Smith, out temporarily with a cast around his ankle, will be back in time for the pole vault in the Yale meet, and he has cleared 11 feet...