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...critic's "livid" might have been a slip 'twixt the pen and the press; nevertheless, his little bundle of skillfully modulated sesquipedalian (or is it sesqui-pedantic?) phrases is a stodgy example of journalism uninhibited by idiomatic terminology. Sydney H. Sohanberg '55 Robert A. Spangler...
...months ago, when Sergeant Wilkins, 28, came out through Panmunjom and Freedom Village, he had a list of 3,272 fellow prisoners as potential customers. As soon as he could get pen and paper, he sent the names and addresses to his old employer. Hanson Chevrolet sent out 2,000 letters offering the sergeant's friends a $300 "Wilkins discount" on a new car, urged them to come to Detroit to pick it up. Last week the company announced that 21 ex-prisoners have already done so (one former colonel came all the way from Georgia...
...York Daily News Columnist John O'Donnell, who yields to few men in his use of savage political invective, last week turned his pen to a matter far from politics. In the midst of the angry nationwide editorial and public uproar over the kidnaping and murder of six-year-old Bobby Greenlease (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Columnist O'Donnell gave his recommendations for the type of punishment needed to fit the crime. Wrote O'Donnell: "Cruel and unusual punishment [for these criminals], as prolonged as medical skill can accomplish, and as ferocious and merciless as tales of ancient...
...Easy Position. The tribute was well earned. Lacerda has been fighting with his fists, his booming voice and his pen ever since he started out as a reporter on a daily in Rio at 14. Grandson of a Brazilian supreme court justice, Lacerda worked closely with Brazil's Communist Party, which two of his uncles had helped start, often led student strikes and demonstrations against the government. In 1935, with the police on his trail, he was smuggled to his grandfather's mango farm in the false bottom of a coffee truck. Four years later he broke sharply...
...that something was radically wrong. One little boy confessed that he could not read the postcards his mother had sent him from Honolulu. A teen-age grocery clerk had to admit that he could not read handwritten orders. Another boy told his mother that he could not decipher his pen pal's letters. A little girl said she could not sign her name "because I can't do capitals." Last May six mothers and fathers finally formed a Parents' Research Committee to look into the matter further. Was there any valid reason, they wanted to know...