Word: poison-penned
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...Poland's most influential Communist authors has been sentenced to a year in prison. The charge: writing poison-pen letters to the regime's highest officials...
...mantelpiece to urge a slow-moving salesman out of his atrophy. "Cash," says Robbins, "is getting to be passe for rewarding efforts. A lot of people want something they can see-and show off to other people." And then there are those who send trophies instead of poison-pen letters. One Marine officer, eager to express his opinion of a football referee, ordered a "Biggest Bonehead of the Year" trophy, and even supplied the bonehead: a souvenir Japanese skull, which Robbins gold-plated and suitably engraved. Another football referee, who was castigated for an outrageous yardage measurement, received a statuette...
While McCall's and the Ladies' Home Journal, the amazons of the women's-magazine field, traded perfumed poison-pen letters last week over rival circulation claims (TIME, July 28), third-running Good Housekeeping poked fun at both. The Hearst monthly, with a 5,074,816 circulation (v. 6,857,677 for McCall's, 6,838,282 for the Journal), took space in two major newspapers to print a whimsical, seven-column "fable" with a pointed moral...
...then he doubly deserves your selection for 1958. No other man dominated the world's news more, albeit to the disgust of free men and nations, than this sly, scheming, abusive, arrogant, warmongering, vodka-guzzling Soviet Premier. His crowning achievement, in a year of diabolic propaganda missiles and poison-pen missives, is his current step to fold up the four-power occupation of Berlin, thus defying Western determination to hold on in West Berlin. What other choice is more timely...
...Dowager Horniman, who cuts her gowns from old muslin curtains and passes her time collecting pet jellyfish "cast up on the beach by the insensate cruelty of the Spanish tide"; Seumas Cullen, the Dublin painter who established his reputation on one painting, which he exhibits year after year; a poison-pen writer named Peadar, who vents his spleen on a local landlady by addressing a note to "The Biggest Old Bitch in Ballyknock." In a classic display of Gaelic futility, an Irish museum hangs the Chaos canvas upside down ("We're a young country," pleads the director), and Tommy...