Word: maile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attends dress shows but rarely buys. "Do you see me paying $800 or $900 for a dress?" she cries. If she is complimented on a hat, she is likely to say that she saw it in an advertisement in the Sunday New York Times, and bought it by mail for $16.95. She is a doting grandmother, and writes weekly to her son, Infantry Major John (who last week received orders to report to the Far East this summer-see NEWS in PICTURES). She smokes Philip Morrises and plays canasta tirelessly. Until three months ago, when her doctor asked...
London's Tory Daily Mail reported the news with obvious distaste, and sardonically observed that it would "delight the 'gaga' school." What made the Mail so grumpy was the announcement last week that 48-year-old Sir Kenneth Clark, chairman of the art panel of Britain's Arts Council, had just been moved up to run the whole show. It is a job that makes him the minister of culture in Britain, and Sir Kenneth is a man with some advanced ideas...
...from these dim millions that the columnist gets his response. There's fan mail, of course, but the public is not in a position to know. It's at the Metropolitan Club, from the retired administrator stepping out of a cab, or the head of a Government agency pulling off his coat in the lobby, or the Senator on his way up in the elevator to the bar, that he learns whether his words have hit a mark. A Washington column is the record of conversations among very important persons...
...rocks and safely into the deep water." He promptly fired George Earle Buckle, editor for 28 years, and put in Geoffrey Dawson, who had been one of the paper's top foreign correspondents. Northcliffe, who seldom worked from the Times office, harried Editor Dawson by phone, cable and mail from watering places all over the Continent. He bombarded his staff of "weaklings" and "dullards" with denunciations and demands, called himself "the Ogre of Fleet Street," and often signed his orders "Lord Vigour & Venom." Once he cabled: THIS MORNINGS ARTICLE IS ALRIGHT BUT IS LARGELY A RECAPITULATION OF WHAT...
...Kirby, who had studied under Whistler in Paris, regarded himself as a failure as an artist when Friend Franklin P. Adams ("F.P.A.") got him a cartooning job on the old New York Evening Mail in 1911. His pen editorials soon proved too sharp-pointed for the ultra-conservative Mail and his liberal ideas quickly got him fired from the conservative New York Sun. When he joined Pulitzer's crusading New York World in 1913, Kirby found a world...