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...Pap & Prediction. What Walker really considers his greatest triumphs are his column's predictions. Examples...
...many a Hausfrau, wrinkling into middle age, this saga of the popular author of slick, sleek magazine pap was a thrill beyond her daily hopes. They quickly bought up almost every Ursula Parrott book on the drugstore shelves. But what produced a bitter-sweet romantic sighing in Ursula's readers fetched another emotion in the breast of the FBI. Ursula was charged not just with love's old sweet song gone boogie-woogie but with aiding the desertion of an army prisoner...
...merit in radio drama, to Sandra Michael's Against the Storm (TIME, Nov. 10), which emerged from the ruck of soap operas to prove that pap and pandering are not requisites in that field; and to Norman Corwin's eloquent Bill of Rights anniversary program (TIME...
...social worker was talking to a girl in a slum district and said: "Where is your father?" "Oh, Pap's in the penitentiary," the girl replied. "What about your mother?" "She's out here in an insane asylum," answered the girl. "And your sister?" "She's been in the Reform School a couple of years." "Well, that just leaves you and your brother. Where's he?". "He's at Harvard." "What, you mean your brother is in college?" What's he studying?" "Oh, he ain't studying nothing. They're studying him." --Youngstown Dally Vindicator...
...those days engine designers were frustrated for want of high-test gasoline. Mail planes roared along on 60 octane pap. As late as 1929 designers and flyers never dreamed of using 100 octane gasoline, the presumably unattainable "perfect" fuel...