Word: reads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sometimes you can read halfway through an A. P. story before realizing you've got something hot." United Press' figures "in accident and disaster stories . . . are in variably higher than A.P. figures, and invariably have to be revised downward." U.P. also showed "a predilection for the tired adjective." International News Service summaries are "well and tightly written." But I.N.S...
...steel had botched the job. Said Barren's Business & Financial Weekly: "Unfortunately . . . few steelmen have seen fit to use rational arguments in presenting their case ... It would be amazing if [the fact finders] did not develop the strongest possible resentment against the steel companies." Actually, to anyone who read all the arguments, the steelmen had built up a good case, answering the union point by point...
...Page One box, Managing Editor Parham asked readers what they thought of the experiment. By last week the votes were 10 to i against the new look. Most readers found the headlineless paper dull, couldn't tell big stories from little ones. Complained one subscriber: "You have to read this paper to find out what...
Enquirer Publisher Roger Ferger, who knows that there is no other Sunday paper in Cincinnati for Catholics (or anybody else) to read, replied with a promise to Monsignor Freking: "You'll change your mind about the Weekly after...
...bland satire that good-naturedly kids the iron pants off the whole profession of medieval arms. Written as a juvenile, it is the kind of literary fare that parents will gobble up if they can get it away from the kids. The Saracen's Head can be read in an hour, but in that brief time Willie runs his shaky lance through El Babooni, the infidel champ, is knighted by King Richard I himself, and unwillingly carries the royal standard up the walls in the historic storming of Acre...