Word: morrison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...answer to a challenge by Theodore Morrison on the quality of American newspaper writing, this year's 12 Nieman Follows have compiled a 60-page study of "Reading, Writing and Newspapers" into a special edition of the Nieman Reports issued yesterday...
...report is the direct result of a question put to the Fellows last December by Morrison in his bi-monthly Nieman writing seminar; Morrison asked why is the quality of American newspaper writing so poor? The three-months' study consists of 12 articles by the Fellows, an introduction by Morrison, and a preface by Louis M. Lyons, Curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism...
...government benches, Socialist Deputy Prime Minister Herbert Morrison looked up in alarm, whispered to Clement Attlee, then turned to Chief Labor Whip William Whiteley. Whiteley scurried out, found a few Laborites dawdling in the bar, a few in the smoking room, and some more in the library. Labor, with an overall parliamentary majority of only three votes, had been caught napping...
...M.P.s dutifully returning to vote. A few minutes after 10, the vote was in, and Clement Attlee's government had suffered its first parliamentary defeat: 283 to 257. One exuberant Tory borrowed an old Laborite victory cry. "We are the masters now," he yelled. On the government benches, Morrison flushed and fidgeted. Minister of National Insurance Edith Summerskill stared blankly into 'space. Only Clement Attlee saw the joke. Attlee threw back his head and roared with laughter. As the defeated Laborites filed from the House, the Tories shouted, "Resign, resign!", waved their handkerchiefs in farewell...
...share in the shock the University must feel in the death of one of its eminent scholars," said Theodore Morrison '23, lecturer in English...