Word: pulsebeat
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...strains on John and Mary's marriage are, luckily, all external. John is a good writer gone wrong as an advertising manager. John's boss is the bottom-pinching proprietor of an outfit that manufactures "PulseBeat Eternal Non-Magnetic" watches. Trouble arrives with Besame Bessamer, the boss's stepdaughter, whose pulse beat, particularly when she is near John, is entirely too magnetic. Along the way of his thin plot, Author Tanner looses his most devastating attacks on flossy Manhattan restaurants and nightclubs catering to lovers of bad food, overpriced booze and rotten entertainment-the result being...
...period immediately following November 2, much talk centered upon the five--elections-- wrong American press, which had all but unanimously pressed for the losing Republican candidate and, to cap the atrocity, had completely mistaken the public pulsebeat in the process. By new, how-ever, most newspapers have managed to submerge the issue and settle down to the merry business of waving an admonishing finger in the direction of the Truman Administration...
...long, upholstered office in City Hall sat the man who had his finger on this pulsebeat. Daily, at all hours, across the claret-colored rug streamed aides, colleagues, politicians, businessmen, repairmen, newsmen. The young man, who saw everyone, was the city's mayor: deLesseps ("Chep") Story Morrison, 35, handsome, bouncing, talkative, tough and stubborn...
...House Un-American Activities Committee acts with customary discernment, faculty and undergraduates the country over may look forward to hearing they are "subversive." One may anticipate such an edifying seene as Ralph Barton Perry in pitched verbal battle with J. Parnell Thomas. So high is the current national pulsebeat on the Communist issue, moreover, that the attack will no longer center solely on the social and economic views a particular professor happens to embrace. The oft-repeated struggle for academic freedom, most recently waged by students at the University of Texas in the Rainey incident, is likely to share...
...swirling fog held London in a clammy clasp last week, muffling its powerful pulsebeat to a mere mark-time. The air tasted vaguely sulphurous and had the faintest odor of wet ashes...