Word: readings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...glaze of don't-care-if-I-do-die juvenility, Producer Walter Wanger seems ... to provide the morbid market with a sure-enough gasser." We are pleased indeed that "Krylon spray" is so well known that its name is used to describe a spraying process. But then we read on to a "cheap glaze," and we become unpleased in a hurry! Krylon is the producer of the world's finest spray coatings...
...almost ten years that I have known Mexico your Dec. 8 cover story is one of the few that I have read in a U.S. publication that shows an intelligent understanding of what is going on down here...
...bussing the cheek of Headache, a slot-machine maker who is not above bussing back. Cries Headache: "Owoo! That lollypop!" The very suggestion that Popsie and Lolita and Headache and Humbert are parallels draws howls of aggrieved outrage from Cartoonist Chester Gould who says he has never even read Nabokov's book. ("Nymphet?" said Gould. "That's the biggest word I've heard today.") To him, Lolita sounds like a waste of time...
...radio and TV stations that tried to fill the news gap by extended coverage, the best job was done by a radio station tied to a good newspaper-the New York Times's WQXR. Department editors went on the air to read stories; other staffers chatted conversationally among themselves on topics of the hour. Taped interviews with Timesmen overseas gave listeners a Timeslike ration of international affairs. Every day Theodore M. Bernstein, the Times's able, shirt-sleeved assistant managing editor, patiently and expertly filled for his audience, column by column, an imaginary Times Page One-and emerged...
...thick in clover that tax receipts ran 10% higher and the department stores of Cedar Rapids, Iowa were 4.5% ahead of last year. In the South, where new industry was moving in 50% faster than last year, most of what was known about the recession was what the people read in the news dispatches from the North. Says Southern Co.'s President Harllee Branch Jr.: "We had just enough of a recession to be made aware that one could happen...