Word: matter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know just how much blame goes to DuMaurier and how much to the people who followed the story so faithfully. It really doesn't matter. Ten minutes of W. C. Fields--not at his best--is not worth spending three hours to disprove a hypothesis. So, send an acquaintance...
There was a time early in the season when Art Valpey said he had made arrangements to have all practice sessions in clear weather. As a matter of record it has not rained enough on a practice day since then to in any way disrupt the workout. True to form, the skies cleared beautifully yesterday afternoon just before the practice began...
...writing whodunits, calls his reporters "my agents." In 2½ years on the city desk, Lowall has done his best to make Publisher Palmer Hoyt's Post read like an up-to-date version of the old Police Gazette. To charges that he overplays crime, Lowall answers: "No matter how cheap a crime story may be, it is still better than any other type of story...
Except for a matter of dates, the letter to the editor of Street & Smith's Astounding Science Fiction (circ. 80,000) would have received no more attention than the next piece of fan mail. Writing in October 1948, 20-year-old Richard Hoen of Buffalo, N.Y. had told in detail what he liked & disliked about the issue of November...
...Belmont Park last June. That day, with one jockey hurt and two others stunned, he walked calmly back to the jockeys' room where an excited doctor exclaimed: "That was a pretty bad spill." Glisson, dirty and dusty, stared at the doc with cold, blue eyes and said matter-of-factly: "I've seen worse." At 18, he has the kind of unshakable coolness that makes him a standout among the hard-boiled little men he rides against...