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...Shafer climbs to his "city news bureau" in a loft over Wittenberg's newsstand. The floor is littered with years of overflow from his orange-crate "files," the whole scene dominated by a huge stove and a headless, female cigar-store Indian. There Chet pecks out "Doings," a paragraph of gossip for the local Commercial, and "straight stuff" for the Kalamazoo Gazette. Making his rounds, Chet is easy to spot: in winter by his coonskin hat and wolf coat, in summer by a flat fedora which he once had insured against fire, theft and collision...
...busy at the telephone. Next day their joint story-the kind of story only the Daily News could or would do-ran three columns, a sort of extra dividend that gave 2,400,000 tabloid readers their full 2? worth. (Same day, the U.N. site story rated a paragraph in the News...
...Primo de Rivera in the '20s. In Argentina, where he took out citizenship papers in 1930, chubby Jose Figuerola kept up the good work as Juan Perón's Man Friday and expert on labor matters. Argentines now saw -his fine Iberian hand in almost every paragraph of the President's new plan...
...review of The Harvard Dramatic Club's "Adam the Creator," your reviewer stated in the second paragraph ". . ., but (the audience) will know at least that the Harvard Dramatic Club has given them something new and vital instead of a warmed-over version of a corner store classic." He goes on to say that "More than shrewd choice has gone into the play, too. Within the harrowing confines of Sanders Theater the HDC has created an exceptionally professional production--satisfactory in acting, setting, staging, music...
...stories, is clearly at home in the form of writing in which the central characters' thoughts take the place of dialogue and the awkward conversation of most amateur pieces is neatly side-stepped. Immediately noticeable is Miss Worley's economical and effective use of words. Only an unnecessary first paragraph mars here technical effort. "The Enigma," her heavyweight contribution dealing with love on idealistic and physical levels, has many fine observations and insights. The sensitive theme is handled maturely and whether or not the psychology of the story rings true probably depends to a large extent upon the reader...