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...stopped them. Then the five were marched to the prison gymnasium, were stripped, examined by a physician and shackled over the "grey mare," a wooden gym horse. As the doctor stood by, the warden himself and guards took turns walloping the five where mother used to spank. Their lash was a leather strap 6 inches wide and 2%½ feet long...
...This P-R work and mag articles really interest me. Public relations in the Navy is a new lash-up. There's no rank in it now. But we hope that it will grow. Maybe there will be a public relations admiral in ten years. P-R men should not be press agents. They should be the medium between the press agents and the people . . . The Army and Air Force are more advanced in all this. When the Korean War started, the Army had 52 P-R men in the Korean theatre, the Air Force had 38, and the Navy...
Wield the Lash. As P-D city editor for 25 years, big (6 ft. 4 in., 240 Ibs.) Ben Reese had built up a crack staff by painstaking direction and a relentless, daily wielding of the lash on staffers who failed to give him what he wanted ("Tell him the Post-Dispatch wants to know, and don't come back without the story"). He had developed many a bannerline expose through his dogged, relentless pursuit of the smallest story clue, spent as much as $50,000 to break a hot story. In 1936, for example, by sending a dozen...
...unconditional surrender of the last Communist. The complete extirpation of Communism is a proper object of prayer, but hardly of international policy. The U.S. can readily accept what might be called "conditional coexistence" with Communist governments. The general proviso is that the Communist governments shall not be able to lash out on a campaign of world conquest. Particular conditions would include 1) international inspection and control of atomic arms, 2) dismantling of police and slave states...
...Donnell was not suggesting policy decisions. Said O'Donnell: "It is a United Nations war, and we cannot decide things unilaterally. All I know is that if we were allowed to go after them with all our strength, including the ultimate weapon, we could put the lash on them. That's the only language they seem to understand." Newsmen promptly demanded: Did he mean the atomic bomb? Said O'Donnell: "There are several good targets in China which would be suitable for attack with atomic bombs. We could deliver those attacks...