Word: post-dispatch
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...Into whose "New York Post-Dispatch" office each day came "more than thirty letters, all of them alike, stamped from the dough of suffering with a heart-shaped cookie knife...
...hero is a newspaperman-"Miss Lonelyhearts" is his only name known to the reader-who writes the lovelorn column for the New York Post-Dispatch. He is one of West's quasi-religious figures: "A beard would become him, would accent his Old Testament look." To the millions without emotional refuge, says one character sardonically, "the Miss Lonelyhearts are the priests of twentieth-century America." The mail brings the daily semiliterate confessions of horror. "Dear Miss Lonelyhearts," one letter begins: "I am sixteen years old now and I dont know what to do ... When I was a little girl...
...think St. Louis Post-Dispatch Editorial Writer Rufus Terral [who parodied President Eisenhower's mixed metaphors-TIME, April 2 2.] should know that Ike is in good company. In Hamlet we find Shakespeare writing: "Take arms against a sea of troubles...
...Louis Post-Dispatch Editorial Writer Rufus Terral examined the mixture of metaphor that streamed out of President Eisenhower's press conference last week, grasped his pencil like a sword and fired this broadside of ironic gripeshot...
...everybody has the stuff to be an art collector; it takes money and taste as well as the urge to collect. Joseph Pulitzer Jr. had all three by the time he was a senior at Harvard. Grandson of the founder of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, son of its second editor-publisher, he had been surrounded by art at home from childhood, and had sharpened his taste in four years as a fine arts major. In 1936 Joe Pulitzer made his first leap as a collector, bought Amedeo Modigliani's Elvira Resting at a Table (opposite). For the next...