Word: mail
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite his crudities. Faye has eight TV sponsors, because he can assure them of a good-sized audience. His mail is chiefly the poison-pen type: "Die! Die! Die!" urged one letter writer last week. Said another: "You are a splendid example of the fact that in order to have free speech we must tolerate its abuse by idiots." In a recent charity appearance before 62,500 people at Soldier Field, Faye fans pelted him with coins, ice cream, paper cups and jeers. Grabbing a microphone, he bellowed: "I want you to know that whatever you think...
...station-wagon load of mail every day," says Wright, "a lot of it from people who want to know the name of the song played at 3:12 yesterday afternoon." Yet when the station asked whether listeners wanted numbers identified on the air, 15,000 wrote in to scotch the notion. The music is also popular with merchants. "I asked a store clerk the other day where they got their nice music," says Wright, "and he said, 'Why, that's your station.' " WPAT's only problem is a product of its success: so many advertisers...
...column for the New York Post-Dispatch. He is one of West's quasi-religious figures: "A beard would become him, would accent his Old Testament look." To the millions without emotional refuge, says one character sardonically, "the Miss Lonelyhearts are the priests of twentieth-century America." The mail brings the daily semiliterate confessions of horror. "Dear Miss Lonelyhearts," one letter begins: "I am sixteen years old now and I dont know what to do ... When I was a little girl it was not so bad because I got used to the kids on the block makeing...
...pointed. Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks, an economic conservative by birth, instinct and training, stepped to the firing line with a denunciation of "budget butchers, whose latest proposals go far beyond sound economy and now threaten progress and peace." In the face of the united Administration front, congressional budget-cutting mail was slacking off, and letters supporting the President were beginning to pile...
...what it never dared to do to the unpopular Truman-hack away at his whole foreign policy program with a meat ax all along the line." Fair-Dealing Doris Fleeson even started one column: "The President has lost his budget fight." Lawrence, who is still being bombarded with critical mail for his defense of the budget, disagreed. "The tide," he wrote, "is turning. The President is relying on the simple theory that common sense and the facts will win the case in the court of public opinion." Partially joining him in this was the New York Times's James...