Word: paragrapher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have just read your article on William Francis Gibbs in TIME, Sept. 28. . . . One little bracketed statement in the fourth paragraph is rather amusing and very false. You say, "By contrast, in World War I U.S. yards, building smaller, poorer ships delivered not a single cargo vessel of the wartime program until after the war was ended." That virtually means, as it stands, that the U.S. Shipping Board got no deliveries of cargo vessels...
...carefully sidestepped specific reason for its drastic action, only admitted "unsatisfactory relations" in Cleveland. But Washington dopesters said WLB's stilted phrase was verbal whitewash to cover a nasty situation, pointed to paragraph No. 6 of the Board's decision, which orders official observers to the Cleveland plant at once...
...still there was good reason on the doubters' side; for the magazine TIME'S founders planned was not a magazine for everybody-and it never will be a magazine for everybody. As you know, there are more facts per paragraph in TIME-more significant, difficult, complicated facts about industry and finance and politics and war-than there are in any other widely read magazine we know about. And no reader can really get full value out of TIME unless he brings to TIME a background of education far above average...
...empty gallon can to a filling station. "Can't do it, mister," said the station attendant. "The gas has to be served in the tank of the car." Henderson: "I know, I know, I wrote those regulations. But they cover emergencies like this." Attendant (unmoved): "Read that last paragraph inside your book." Taxicabbing to his office, Administrator Henderson seized a copy of his 70-page book of regulations, heavily underscored the clause about such emergencies as his, sent the book, with his autograph, to the station attendant. Commented the latter, still unmoved: "I ain't selling...
...word in a long passage did he miss." Reynolds got a great kick out of London's worst aerial blitz, writes his report of it in semi-cablese: . . . THE BLITZ WAS AT ITS VERY HEIGHT AND MORE THAN ONCE THE BIG SAVOY SHOOK UNDER THE PARAGRAPH QUOTE EYE WONDER HOW MANY OF US WILL BE ALIVE IN THE MORNING UNQUOTE A WOMAN SAID CALMLY STOP WE LOOKED AT HER INCREDULOUSLY STOP NONE OF US KNEW HER STOP SHE WAS A STATELY MIDDLE AGED WOMAN IN EVENING CLOTHES AND SHE WAS SIPPING A TALL DRINK PARAGRAPH...