Word: regretably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME [Dec. 10] says: "The Reader's Digest is one of the greatest success stories in the history of journalism." Admittedly, the Digest enjoys circulation superiority. But is that equivalent to success? The real test of success is not size but quality. I regret to note TIME contributing to the American heresy that bigness is the same as goodness, that success can be tabulated on an adding machine...
Actress Bennett did her best to hush the scandal. "Knowing Hollywood as I do," she declared with conscientious concern, "knowing how good, wholesome and sincere the majority of motion picture people are, I deeply regret that this incident will add to the erroneous opinion of Hollywood shared by so many." There was no romance, she said. Her ride with Agent Lang was a business conference and they had simply used the car to escape the jangling telephones in his office. The sorry affair was simply the result of Wan-ger's business troubles: "I hope that Walter will...
...sincerely regret the error. We trust that the speed of our correction proves our good faith. /s/ William M. Simmons. December...
...Reluctantly and with genuine regret," Harry Truman last week announced the resignation of Dean Rusk, 42, Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs. In four years, Rusk jumped up the State Department ladder from an assistant division chief to a spot as a top policymaker. Rusk and Secretary of the Army Frank Pace alerted Truman in the critical hours of June 26, 1950, before the President decided to order MacArthur to meet Communist aggression in Korea. Rusk's new job: president of the Rockefeller Foundation...
...Roman Catholic I should rather regret the appointment of an ambassador to the Holy See, in view of the bitterness that would be engendered in many quarters . . . As an American, however, I feel that a representative at this center of world influence would be a great advantage to my country, and I am sure that the President had nothing else in mind when suggesting...