Word: paragraphs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nostalgic paragraph, he lamented that "to this generation, Ziegfeld is William Powell with talcum at the temples." In a thumbnail review of Around the World, he asked Orson Welles "Isn't it about time you made up your mind whether you're Senator Pepper, D. W. Griffith, or Kupperman the Quiz Kid? . . . You've been away too long, Doubledome." In another piece he gave the back of his hand to an old pal: ". . . Gary Grant has been putting the blast on the kids who pester him for his autograph. I don't get it. When...
...have a paragraph on Joseph Hicswa [TIME, May 20]. I wish to bring to your attention one sentence with which I can't agree...
...make other arrangements." He never has to.) Hearst accountants may wince at the long-distance tolls he runs up, but he rings up scoops that way. By casual telephone calls, he got beats on the Dionne quintuplets' birth (it came over the wires as a one-paragraph item; he telephoned Dr. Dafoe for the details), and Douglas Corrijan's wrong-way flight (Reutlinger placed phone calls to three airports in Ireland, sure that Corrigan would come down there...
...Donald Adams is usually a mild-mannered and stolid citizen. But the more he looked at a paragraph of literary doubletalk in a current poetry magazine, the more it "acted as bellows to my smouldering disgust." He was really burning by the time he got down to writing his Sunday column in the New York Times Book Review. Wrote he: the trouble with poetry today is the way most critics write about it. "They worry at poetry like a terrier with a rat. They are bleeding it to death...
...captain blink. Sailors and marines were involved; so were WAVES and civilians. It was happening in phone booths, on the ladders, even in the middle of the corridors. To tough-minded Captain C. F. Behrens, executive officer, it was a matter for emergency action. He drafted a stern, four-paragraph memorandum: "Lovemaking and lollygagging are hereby strictly forbidden...