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When somebody sells a columnist a "pup" -a story based on distorted facts, half-truths, or inventions-the writer can follow one of three courses. He can hunt desperately for more facts with which to prop up the original lie; he can say nothing more about it and rely on his readers to forget the blunder; or he can frankly admit his mistake and correct the injustice...
...defense commission ... I am convinced that the story was grossly unfair to Mr. Biggers." Earnestly he now saluted OPM as "a strong and competent board." Noteworthy in Columnist Franklin's confession was not the fact that a columnist had based a know-it-all expose on a "pup"- that has happened too often before in the type of column which makes a business of scandalmongering about public affairs. More unusual was the frank and honest confession of error and its correction. So often have such tales appeared uncorrected, and so serious might be their consequences in critical times, that...
Joseph Valentine (Guiseppe Valentino), who calls himself a "dago wop," has followed Deanna Durbin's cinema growth from a pup. Most great reputations in the business are built on subdued arty effects -the specialties of Toland, Gaudio and chunky Chinese James Wong Howe-but Valentine has won his colors with gaiety. The lilt he catches in the gait of Deanna Durbin swinging along, singing a song, is the difference between making a musical bright and fluffy or allowing it to settle like cold soufflé. Dark, athletic, with a Cupid's-bow mustache, Valentine is a leader...
...1890s, when Pablo Picasso was a pup, a Schleswig-German artist named Emil Nolde began experimenting. He distorted forms, rearranged figures, changed colors-innovations with which Picasso was later credited by the uninformed. Artist Nolde, father of German "Expressionism," lived through World War I, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich. When in 1937 the Nazis held a finger-pointing exhibit of "Degenerate Art" in Munich, Nolde was naturally included...
Picturesquely perched on a sandstone bluff above the Straight River, in whose caves the Fleck brewery has been aging beer since Shattuck was a pup, Shattuck makes Christian soldiers every year of some 200 boys who hail from far & wide, pay $1,000 a year for their tuition and upkeep. One of the six military schools in the country which has never had an honor graduate separated from West Point, Shattuck drills its boys as smartly in the classroom as on the parade ground. Shattuck boys call themselves Shads, their food "garbage," the girls of nearby St. Mary...