Word: ll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still the most important part of our press structure. I think that a good deal of our press reporting has strictly gone to hell; there is too much thumbsucking, too little pavement-pounding . . . From now on, Indiana is neither G.O.P. nor Democratic to me. I know I'll have to dig to find out. It has been a wonderful lesson to those newspapermen who still have enough sense left to know that they got a lesson the hard way, and that they'd better brush up again on the fundamentals...
Conway, and if you don't do better you'll be the first Conway I ever saw sitting on the bench...
Tutors for Tommy. When he heard of Tommy's troubles, Jerry said: "I'll talk to him." He did that night at the family dinner table with two younger Conways-Terry and Neil-kibitzing. He ticked off Tommy's weaknesses: slow getaways, too much use of elbows, getting sucked out of position. "You got to get smarter," Jerry pounded home. Tim Sr., an Irishman who believes that athletics is the best thing that can happen to a boy, admitted that Tommy was lackadaisical. Under that kind of tutoring, Tommy soon perked up and played better...
Sometimes, Mitzi says, she is afraid of getting to be 40. "I think maybe I'll look back and realize my work was tenth-rate. But meanwhile, I've got to keep hammering. It comes straight out of my nervous system. I'll probably die of a short circuit...
...bagful which he kept under his coat and devoured. His aides were quick to spot the chief's moods and behave accordingly. Sometimes it would be: "God help anybody who asks him for any favors today." Again: "He feels so good he'll be telling Cotton Ed Smith that it's perfectly all right for the South to go ahead and secede...