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...Sheridan build-up began about two weeks ago when Lowell Thomas referred to the Lampoon's poke at Miss Sheridan as "least likely to succeed." An alert Hollywood publicity man saw his chance and got her to issue a counterblast at the Lampoon, and the big-time publicity began...
Featured performer of the trio is the irrepressible Wyer, poke-checker and rinkman extraordinary. This to Wyer's eighth consecutive year of high-class competitive hockey, and no more than makes up what he lacks in breakaway speed with finesse and experience to burn. His compatriots, Bordiey and Turner, make that first line a goalie's nightmare...
Suppose a reporter from here, assigned to cover TIME, should poke his nose into the composing and press rooms, take a gander around the circulation and advertising departments; should then knock out an article which magnified the mechanical side, said little about your main job-reporting and writing ? We don't believe you'd feel grateful for that kind of coverage, thankful that you had been treated fairly...
...your sister publication, LIFE, continually poke fun at us poor "semi-educated people" who are doing the best we can toward "self-improvement...
Actually, the undoctored facts of the case argue that the question of free speech is not involved here. The decision seems to have revolved around an entirely different issue. To conclude that liberal rights are being sabotaged, it is necessary to poke around beneath the facts and to emerge with some dubious interpretations. It is necessary to attribute to Mr. Greene the most blatant sort of insincerity. At the very least, it requires imputing to him a certain amount of unconscious hypocrisy--an over-readiness to squirm out of a previous decision in Mr. Browder's favor. Only by reading...