Word: paragraphing
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Eccentricities of businessmen often make the case writers' job more difficult than it need be. One man insisted that his name appear in the title every time although the name of the company couldn't be used. Another man refused to sign a release unless a paragraph was added stating the company was well managed and that future earnings appeared likely...
...wish also you had printed the courageous paragraph from Society in America-the book reviewed was a by-product of that work-as an inspiration to us hypacusics. She said...
...separate commands in the Far Pacific, and it did this partly because of jealousy of MacArthur's great popularity and partly because the conservative opposition press launched a MacArthur-for-President campaign-without any encouragement from the General himself." The statement was buried in the 17th paragraph of a Pacific roundup story, but it made big reading by the time it reached the Australian headlines...
...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...