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...fine promotion was never sent out, and last week Columnist Lyons switched syndicates from King Features to McNaught. The trouble originated with Publisher Hearst, summering in northern California. He was getting madder & madder at Lyons. Lyons had made friendly mention no less than 41 times since Jan. 1 of Orson Welles, producer of the movie Citizen Kane, allegedly based on Hearst's strange career. That was tactless at least of Columnist Lyons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Lyons' New Den | 6/30/1941 | See Source »

Clearness? Your style is too labored to be clear; the boys in the bunkhouse at the Helen Hiwater get madder'n hell when they have to read some of your paragraphs twice. Beansoup Ben and Sourdough Sam send you 50,000 parentheses to use in your next issue. Are you laughing at us? Sure, we are laughing, too, at old cowpokes lecturing you city slickers on how to write...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 12, 1941 | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

...Classes of '44, '43, and '42 were elected recently to the Dudley Hall House Committee, and will serve the Hall on this committee as long as they remain connected with the Hall. Those elected are Eugene J. Reilly '42, Herbert M. Jarrish '42, Leonard Kilfoyle '43, Summer N. Madder '43, Robert F. Mc Givern '44, and Joseph B. McGrath...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dudley Elects | 4/30/1941 | See Source »

...more I think about this the madder I get. Has the M-Day plan been changed since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 15, 1940 | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

Results. If Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin concluded the Pact for its immediate effect-to be so startling that the world would at once accede to dismemberment of Poland-the bitter laugh was on them. Poland behaved as if nothing had happened. Britain, France got madder if possible. Italy went into her oldtime wobbling act. Japan began slapping Germans in Tientsin. Catholic Spain was outraged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Realists Have Taken Over | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

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