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...politics, labor-management problems, the economy. A few of his other cover subjects : John L. Lewis, Tom Dewey, Robert Taft, Dean Acheson, Eugene Dennis, Richard Mellon. A fine craftsman and a thoroughly professional journalist, he has a special talent for sizing up his man in his lead paragraph. His cover story on former Speaker of the House Joe Martin (TIME, Nov. 18, 1946) began: "About all that little Joe ever did was brush the flies off the horses' big rumps while his old man did the shoeing. Little Joe never actually worked at his father's trade...
...lead paragraph of your October 14 editorial, entitled "The New Nazis," may have provided journalistic punch, but it also presented a distorted view of the Austrian League of Independents, which captured about 12 per cent of the votes in the recent Austrian elections...
...connection with the steel impasse, TIME [Sept. 26] quotes U.S. Steel's Fairless as opposing noncontributory welfare programs as being "at the expense of someone else (i.e., management)" ... and in the next paragraph [you say]: "Such a program would cost the steel industry about $200 million a year and would lift the cost of steel as much...
...last line of the above paragraph might seem to indicate that Mr. Behrman has some thesis or other hiding behind the skirts of his winking Muse, but such is not the case. The plot of "I Know My Love" offers about as much opportunity for character-study as an hour with the old family album. What dimension the Chanler family has is due mainly to the embellishments given it by the actors...
...then did Uncle Branch sell Jethroe, an acknowledged swiftie, a solid line drive hitter, and the possessor of an excellent throwing arm? For one thing, there was the price. A cryptic paragraph in the New York Times stated that the Addis-Jethroe deal provided enough revenue for Ricky to be able to write off the losses of last fall's unfortunate venture into the All-America football conference. The loss on the football Dodgers in 1948 has been conservatively estimated at $300,000. And Rickey got six minor leaguers to boot (whose names will be given on October...