Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grand but tidy was the Maine publishing empire Guy P. Gannett built. They were Guy's five papers,* no mistake; his flinty Republicanism, his bedrock conviction that heavy advertisers deserved to make news, were graven into every issue. Five years ago, when Gannett died and the chain passed to his daughter, a handsome divorcee of 30 and mother of three boys, most old subscribers reckoned that the reign in Maine would never be the same again...
Presidents. "More skillfully than most men, they can make words do their bidding-idly filling the time, concealing their thoughts, or serving a purpose. Another surprising discovery for the college president is to find how little of his time, thought and energy goes into education. Eventually his preoccupation with 'housekeeping,' however irritating and deplorable it may be to a new president of scholarly interests, weans the mind and creates a mood of resignation. Soon he finds his colleagues making references to books he has not read." The average term for a college president, says Stoke, is four years...
...Truman thing seemed so important, and then they all wanted me to do the second." A good mural, Benton feels, "must have a world of depth into which you can move. That kind of art is at a low ebb. Ages ago, artists were in demand to make images of a people's God. The artist was a necessity, even though he might have been a slave. His work status was high, but his social status was low. Today the artist has a higher social status, but fewer jobs...
...died in the islands, of syphilis, malnutrition and a failing heart. Last week some 200 of his works, including 75 of his prints, went on show at the Art Institute of Chicago. The exhibition, which will move to Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art in April, helps make the great romantic a classic...
...devised the most skillful public relations campaign in U.S. industry to sell itself to the public. No one at A. T. & T. would ever dream of saying that what is good for A. T. & T. is good for the country; A. T.& T. is doing its best to make it hard for the public to tell where . A.T. & T. leaves off and the country begins...