Word: readers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dentist Garvin vowed to appeal his case to the state and nationa' dental societies and the courts, if necessary. His column, ballyhooed by General Features ("More reader interest than a) politics, b) baseball, c) Elvis Presley, d) canals, or e) Marilyn Monroe, COMBINED!"), is running in about 50 papers. Meanwhile, the Des Moines Register and Tribune Syndicate is starting a rival column written by a Cleveland dentist who is retired and thus need not heed the cries of his fellow dentists should he touch them on a sensitive nerve. Dentist Garvin himself is so flooded with would-be patients...
...this reason that Safe Counsel, written in 1904, is a valuable guide for those seeking spiritual and moral redemption. As the authors warn: "Let the reader of this work study its pages carefully ... and remember that purity of purpose and purity of character are the brightest jewels in the crown of immortality...
Eight in a Bed. Dolci spared the reader no detail, however sordid, of life in Palermo's notorious Cascino Courtyard. There, 200 yards from the city's splendid cathedral, 260 families live in squalor in 210 rooms. Only one family has a toilet, he reported; the rest run the risk of being fined $4 for relieving themselves on nearby railroad tracks. To keep alive, boys resort to stealing, girls to prostitution. "We sleep four at the top of a bed and four at the bottom," said one inhabitant. "My uncle, my husband, my sister, myself and four children...
...Mail did not stoop to reply, but its sister Rothermere paper, the Daily Sketch (circ. 1,304,892), cried in protest: "Utter rubbish." Added the Sketch: "If the Daily Express manages to get one reader to the South Pole by the end of January, we will pay ?500 to any charity the Daily Express chooses." In the midst of the English winter, hundreds of Express readers entered the contest to get to the Pole. But at week's end, while Fleet Street bet privately that the Sketch's money was safe, the Mail's Barber...
...poem a great amount of tonal unity, but there is little development toward the identity of the artist with his environment that the last stanza professes him to have achieved. Granted the painter may have felt this identity, but it is still up to the poem to help the reader partake of the process. But it's too static and remains as a whole nebulous and gray. Despite its other virtues, there is little light and color in the imagery, something which is doubly essential here because of the central position of a painting in the poem...