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...Guild." Frank Schroth's management and the wartime boom gave the Eagle a semblance of health again; it pushed into the black off and on, and in 1951 won a Pulitzer Prize for meritorious public service for its series on New York crime. But Schroth could not lick his Guild problem. At each round of wage negotiations, the Guild demanded the same wage scale as Manhattan papers, which is the highest scale in the U.S. Pointing to rising costs, Schroth pleaded that he could not pay. This year, in January, the 315 Guildsmen struck again, to try to keep...
...family; he insisted that something be done to offset his ancestor's shame-perhaps outfit a boat and attack an English yacht in sight of a Riviera crowd. His relatives were understanding but unmoved. Perhaps, said Gaston's brother, he could arrange to have his small son lick a British youngster his own age. Poor Gaston went to his favorite café and, with the help of his favorite muscatel, began morosely to imagine every detail of his historic disgrace. From there on. Novelist Ferret and Hero Gaston have the time of their lives, swashbuckling through the most...
...question was: How could the papers lick their problems? All were trying in a different way. And in the process they were causing a great change in the way the New York press covers and reports the news...
With the carrot of sex before and the lash of culture behind, the killer is soon trotting docilely down the straight and narrow. Even an unattractively moral collie, who obviously thinks he is more intelligent than anyone else in the picture (and may be, at that), condescends to lick his hand. Moreover, Sheriff McNally -a character who has to be unpleasant on principle, since the scriptwriter forgot to give him any specific motivations-mellows a little, too, and in the end they all charge off to Utah together as cheerily as vestrymen to a box supper on the church lawn...
...Lick Bad Habits. In 1837 the young Queen Victoria ascended the throne, and the aging Whig skeptic was handed the unusual task of explaining the basic principles of faith and politics to an innocent girl. The young Queen all but fell in love with him. "Dear Lord M" (as the Queen called him in her diary) could explain anything, from the martial conquest of Canada to the marital conduct of Henry VIII ("Those women bothered him so," he told her). He was always so reassuring about everything. "If you have a bad habit," he said, "the best...