Word: often
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week the embattled actress got the news that the House of Lords gallantly had voted a stay of demolition to the cramped, outmoded, bomb-battered and much-loved theater (where Charles Dickens first saw his plays produced). Then, with the broadminded blessing of her husband Sir Laurence Olivier ("Leigh often comes to visit us in the country"), she withdrew from the battle for a three-week furlough in Europe's rest areas with her ex-husband Leigh Holman and their 23-year-old daughter...
...rooted aversion of most business editors to controversy, gloom or criticism-in tacit cahoots with the managerial mentality that believes that the private lives of corporations should be immune from the irreverent scrutiny to which the press routinely subjects politics, government and the boudoir antics of showfolk. "Business too often takes the attitude that the press must cooperate or be guilty of an antibusiness attitude," says the Chicago Sun-Times's deep-digging Financial Editor Austin Wehrwein, who frequently writes columns on the mythical Pfutzer Foundry & Finished Tool Co. (cable address: PFFT) that not only spoof business shenanigans...
...outsized bow tie and a bulky black sweater, who moves with rubbery ease from classic grin to classic frown. "I act like a king-size kid myself," says Soupy, "and talk right to them just like I would a bank president." As pitchman he is less happy. Too often he is called upon to spray himself with Bactine disinfectant and sing "Down go the mean old germs," take great chunks of Silver Cup Bread (backed by offbeat sound effects) and shriek "The Best Bread in Deeee-troit." When he downs his Vite-A-Minnies, children all over Detroit follow suit...
...distinguished handful of papers, daily business sections consist of a raft of market statistics adrift on a pallid sea of wire-service snippets and puffs for advertisers (also known as BOMs or Business Office Musts). In business coverage, editors even overlook readily apparent local trends that often build into stories of national importance. Example: Los Angeles is one of the nation's biggest electronics centers, but most hard news of the industry comes to Los Angeles dailies from wire services and national publications...
...economists, labor leaders who can give remote decisions local dollars-and-cents impact. One reason is that business news is frequently entrusted to a shaky old hand or an untested new one. "Being assigned to business," sniffs a Phoenix reporter, "is like being made dog editor." City editors too often agree. Thus, on a big local-business story such as a strike or a proxy fight, the cityside reporter who can be trusted to turn in sharp, dramatic copy is almost certain to get the assignment over a specialist familiar with the issues...