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Post Haste. "We're conservative, but I don't think blindly so," says the Post's $74,519-a-year editor. "I consider Henry Wallace our most dangerous citizen, but we accept articles about him." Hibbs feels not at all defensive about his fiction, which is poorer than in the '203 (like magazine fiction generally). "But our readers seem to know what they want," says Hibbs. "We did without Tugboat Annie for seven years and the complaints never...
...them specialists: music, art, etc.). The commission would call no district satisfactory unless 90% of the students stuck until high-school graduation ("Farm boys & girls get from two to four years' less schooling than their city cousins . . . not because they have less ability but because they have poorer opportunities...
...with those of 50 years ago, the New York Times found that women now are taller and thinner, live longer but get grey earlier, have bigger feet, eat less but do more heavy drinking, are less prudish, less weepy and less moral, marry earlier, cook better meals but make poorer mothers, are much less satisfied "with their lot as women." Independently, Dr. Marynia F. Farnham, Manhattan psychiatrist and coauthor of Modern Woman: The Lost Sex, proclaimed that U.S. women are the unhappiest in the world...
...Your reporting has been getting poorer & poorer. ... I refer, in particular, to the article captioned "Texas Comes of Age" in your April 7 issue...
...some deft deadpan satire. But Barefoot Boy, like its predecessors, trades mostly on zip, pace, and the sheer commodity value of youth itself. It gets a fair measure of these; but the Abbott trademark is beginning to seem perilously like a rubber stamp. And Barefoot Boy is very much poorer than its predecessors in the matter of music, and not quite so peppy in its dancing...