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...nice to be glad-and we admit we try to be that-although the news doesn't always permit, but we just don't like to be called the "glad rag of the garment trade" [TIME, Aug. 23]. It does something or other to our dignity. How would you like to be called "the newsrag of time?" Wouldn't it do something or other to YOUR dignity...
Starting as a passive revolt to keep farm products from the market, dogged farmers in the southern agricultural areas shut themselves in their straw-thatched izby, refused to buy or sell, to work any land but their own. Last week, gaunt, rag-clad peasants, enraged at individuals who profited by delivering foodstuffs, took to barring the roads, overturning market trucks, destroying farm produce. Reports seeping through the iron press censorship told of sporadic clashes with police, with 56 casualties the result. Before long the strike took an anti-Semitic turn. Roving peasant bands attacked Jewish markets, set upon Jewish peddlers...
...Manhattan, Women's Wear Daily, glad rag of the garment trade, found national brand manufacturers skeptical of the success of Supremacy Products. Why, they asked, should any store carry Macy brands instead of developing its own? If Macy's really proposed to compete with national brands how could it do so without spending a great deal of money in national advertising? One obvious reason, however, for the move on Macy's part was that the more of its own goods Macy's could dispose of-wholesale or retail-the lower its production costs should...
...Bremond saw then from 300 yards away had the deliberate horror of a slow-motion nightmare. The dogs closed in on the little girl. No longer could the doctor see Marie-Anne, but he could hear her shrieking. One of the dogs seemed to be worrying at a large rag doll. With their black gowns hiked up, the monks came stumbling and shouting from their quarters. When the dogs were finally hauled & called off, Marie-Anne lay limp and bleeding in the snow...
...bull spirit of U. S. newspapers, a red, red rag is radio's blatantly exaggerated "coverage claims." Last month mild-mannered Alexander Woollcott became an unwitting toreador in the radio v. newspaper ring. Seizing upon his radio praise of John Steinbeck's novel Of Mice & Men ("I look upon [it] as a masterpiece") the book's publishers plastered newspapers in Chicago, Boston and New York with the claim that Pundit Woollcott had spoken thus "in speaking to 69,540,000 people...