Word: l
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Times, Critic R. L. Duffus examined the commission's complaint that papers judge news by " 'recency or firstness, proximity, combat, human interest and novelty.' . . . Such recommended items as 'decrease of intolerance' or 'increase in the sale of books of biography and history' do get attention when you can put a finger on them. ... A newspaper devoted largely to undramatized 'significant' news would not last long. This is human nature...
...bankrupt." The trend is toward God, all right. Or rather, it is away from His enemies. It has become as fashionable and as easy to laugh at the blindness of ethical relativism with C. S. Lewis, the English wit, as it used to be to laugh with H. L. Mencken at the blindness of the Bible belt. But has the tone of the laughter improved? Is there...
...took him just one month to organize the company which had operated Lone Star for the Government. U.S. Steel made Carpenter move even faster. He promptly rounded up his old Lone Star Steel associates-ranchers, oilmen, bankers. There was Robert L. Thornton, the boisterous, robust president of Dallas' third largest (Mercantile National) bank. Once a sharecropper, Thornton describes himself as "a mule in carriage harness," has pushed through some notable projects (e.g., a 33-story skyscraper erected in Dallas during the war) with the exhortation: "Put on the collar and hamestring...
...Needle. Three Boston biologists fared better as scientific matchmakers. Harvard's Dr. F. Parker Jr. and A. Loveridge, and Boston University's Dr. S. L. Robbins wanted to raise clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis), which are used in pregnancy tests. Thus far, these frogs have had to be imported from South Africa...
...much to do beyond proving, without any strain, that he is one of the most likable entertainers in the business. Miss Grayson, prettier and more animated than ever, warbles an aria from Lakmé like an eisteddfod of thrushes, and does even better by Mozart's Lá Ci Darem la Mano, in which she is supported by Sinatra. For good measure young Billy Roy plays the piano impressively, and Peter Lawford hangs around amiably as the shy son of an English duke...