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...beginning years, Hadden was TIME'S editor, Luce its business manager; later, by agreement, they switched jobs. Editor Hadden liked to liven things up by scoffing in print at advertisers' wares, tartly tell his hard-to-come-by readers in the letters columns: "Let Subscriber Goodkind mend his talk." A brilliant and painstaking editor, he emitted yelps of delight at a writer's bright phrases, and despairing grunts when his plump red pencil (a special batlike one, three-eighths of an inch thick) had to be used to jab life into dull ones. He insisted...
These musicians help liven the waltz party to be held in Agassiz Hall at 8 p.m. tonight. Known as the "Hofbraeuhaus Orchestra" they play waltzes and polkas for similar parties throughout Boston...
...American Airways, known to its friends as Pan-Am, figured to liven things up a bit by holding College Day at the Beach, Friday. Led by Pan-Am's professional joy-boy in Bermuda, one Dick Todd, all the college athletes and visiting ladies toddled off to the beach to engaged in the outdoor equivalent of parlor tricks...
Toward the end Author Costain tries to liven things up a bit. Félicité is dragged by her ankles, with her pretty thighs exposed, by her brutal nobleman husband whom she has been forced to marry, is beaten by him with a cudgel "not thicker than a man's thumb," and is kidnaped by Indians. This, presumably, is what readers of this kind of novel have been waiting for, but it is a long wait, and they are in for further dull stretches before virtue and justice at last prevail...
While Dick Harlow's gridders are changing their attack to the T-formations for his squad. Plans call for tumblers to liven up the proceedings with acrobatics. The only thing lacking now, said Spear, are the tumblers. He urged all men possessing acrobatic ability to come out for the squad...