Word: readings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hooray for your reporter who did the Prima-Smith bit in SHOW BUSINESS-clearly a writer with discerning eye, ear and wit. Although you'll receive heavy abuse from their fans, and Louis will chortle ''all the way to the bank." it's encouraging to read such a clear analysis of this gruesome twosome and their gutter-grade maneuvers...
...read your item about Mrs. Margaret Lockwood, [who protested the Internal Revenue Service's attachment of her husband's paycheck by camping with her two infants at the tax collector's desk-Sept. 7]. We had similar troubles with the Internal Revenue Service. They attached my husband's check, and it was either pay up or lose his job. The ironic part of the whole deal was that it was their mistake, and a five-year-old error, at that. Hurrah for Mrs. Lockwood...
...Horse." Khrushchev wound up his prepared text on California weather, disarmament, how Los Angeles smog resembled the cold war, then looked at Mayor Poulson. "I want to ask you," he said, "why did you mention that? Already in the U.S. I have clarified that. I trust that even mayors read." The crowd gave Khrushchev a laugh and a round of applause. "In our country," Khrushchev went on, "chairmen of councils who do not read the press risk not being re-elected." The crowd gave Khrushchev another big hand; two-time Mayor Poulson turned crimson. Then Khrushchev went on: "Ladies...
Much less successful at Harvard are Newsweek (a sixth read it), David Lawrence's conservative U.S. News and World Report (an eighth), Max Ascoli's Reporter (a tenth). Only a twentieth read either the liberal Nation or New Republic, and a mere handful look at Bill Buckley's infant National Review...
Just as three-fifths read Time and call themselves "moderate liberals," about two-thirds believe that America's two-party system is "satisfactory on the whole and should be essentially retained." In contrast, only one-fifth (extremists of both Right and Left) favor an alteration of the present party structure "so that sharper lines could be drawn" between the two parties--the G.O.P. presumably returning to its conservativism of a by-gone era, and the Democrats moving even further to the Left and becoming, in name as well as in fact, the party of the Respectable Radicals...