Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must have sounded to those who first heard his stories centuries ago. "The first essential," Pound had said, "is the narrative movement . . . Everything that stops the reader must go . . ." Sometimes Rouse did stop the reader ("NO, NO! Doc," Pound would cry), and sometimes he became entirely too free ("Just plain damn bad. Careless, frivolous. Missed opportunities all over . . ."). But gradually, his work was finished to suit even Pound's taste. "Homer speaks naturally," Rouse said, "and we must do the same...
...Collier's bulletin board went a tight-lipped announcement: "The resignation of Louis Ruppel as editor of Collier's was announced today by Clarence E. Stouch, president of the Crowell-Collier Publishing Co." Surprised staffers got no explanation of the break, but it was plain that the magazine was something less than sorry to see Ruppel...
...British Empire, Walter Lippmann was one of the first of the bright young men to be called to Washington. He worked on the Fourteen Points, he was an aide to Colonel House, an officer in Army Intelligence. Disillusioned with the peace treaty, he resigned and went back to the plain living and high thinking of liberal journalism...
...match, held over from last Sunday, will be played at 1:30 p.m. on Franklin Field, Jamaica Plain...
When Harry Truman seized the steel industry, he gave as one of his reasons the "fact" that steel was so short that a strike would stop the flow of supplies to Korea almost overnight. This week it is plain that, despite the 2,500,000-ton loss from the short-lived strikes, there is still so much steel that some varieties of it are begging for buyers. And while Washington and the steelmakers battle over a price rise, many steel prices are already being slashed by middlemen...