Word: respected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME'S editorial operation is geared to handle the vagaries of the news, which has no respect for editorial deadlines, and such high-speed devices as the radio, telephone and telegraph are generally equal to this challenge. Some of the critical materials we work with also use older, slower methods of communication. Newspictures, for instance, generally go by plane or train-as does background editorial copy designed to be kept on file until events make it news. Dailey's job, in part, is to dispatch and pick up these slower moving materials with the least loss of time...
Bugsy was born 42 years ago in New York's dingy Lower East Side. He got his start as a night watchman for a gang of beer runners. Petulant as a small boy he went "bughouse" when crossed, but he was cunning, and he earned the respect of New York City's top crooks. When he hooked up with Meyer Lansky, New York ranked him as one of the "Big Six." He beat raps for rape, carrying concealed weapons, possessing narcotics, and murder. In 1933, Murder, Inc. was branching out. Bugsy, a member, set up western headquarters in Hollywood...
...weapons, though they did enormous damage, did not win the war. They were incomplete, says McCutcheon, in one vital respect: "Suitable guidance and control of the missiles after launching. In the strict sense of the word, they were not true guided missiles but artillery projectiles with extended range...
...authority on modern art. He is a not uncommon type of his generation-an intellectual who was born early enough to enjoy the traditional tranquillity of Victorian rural England, but who reached an individualistic maturity during the disordered years between two wars. It is in this respect that his autobiography makes good reading-for Read shuns sensational confessions and concentrates on the varying influences that left their marks on his mind...
...There is more to be taught than the three Rs. There is respect, dignity, discipline, responsibilities, and manners. But," said Mr. Little sternly, rocking back & forth in his parlor chair, "they are not being taught. Give the children more discipline in the home and they would have more in the school. Confused students are being turned out into a confused world...