Word: modernizations
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There is need for a thorough, dispassionate biography of Murrow, one that could assess his precise contributions to American journalism--and to modern relations between the news media and Government during his stint as director of the U.S. Information Agency in the Kennedy Administration. Ann M. Sperber, a former book editor and freelance writer, has doggedly undertaken the task in Murrow: His Life and Times. Her volume is nothing if not inclusive: it mentions head colds and household accidents, and is replete with sometimes pointless anecdotes in which Murrow is at most a peripheral figure--half a page, for example...
...Mulcahy, tended to disappear in the '40s, how the coach's box evolved as an attempt to reduce violence in the days when baseball was a blood sport, and why the fatal beaning of Ray Chapman in 1920 may have done more than Babe Ruth to usher in the modern long-ball era. (Because of Chapman's death, the owners replaced the traditionally scuffed, dirty baseballs with shiny new ones that could be seen better--and hit farther. Rabbit was not ; added to the ball until...
...remembers that the two repaired to a restaurant and drank much too much at a party that ended when Morgan drew his pistol and shot out the lights. Rough times? Guy Martin, 75, who served in Ceylon, Burma and China, shook his head as he inspected a display of modern equipment like infrared binoculars. Said Martin: "We had parachutes and rifles, and that was about it." Adventure? James J. Angleton got into World War II as a private, entered the OSS and soon rose to be the OSS's chief of counterintelligence, while simultaneously commanding a regiment in Italy...
...shouldn't delude ourselves that such a foreign policy is wise," Bok said of a current, non-cooperative international attitude by the United States. "We must learn to coexist in a modern world...
...from The Crimson's front page, titles of memos, lots of names, and idiotic descriptions of office buildings--for example, "The carpet is light blue, and there are large windows in all the outer offices, with more glass on the interior walls of the corner offices. The furnishings are modern." To hide the lack of quality, Vigeland resorts to quantity...