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Like most newsmen, Scripps-Howard Columnist Robert Ruark is fed up with Hollywood's fantastic idea of what working reporters are like. Last week, Ruark, a working reporter for six years before he turned columnist, grabbed at a chance to set Hollywood straight; a moviemaker had asked how he could make a forthcoming newspaper film more accurate...
...drive from Manhattan to Miami gave Columnist Robert C. Ruark meat for an ulcerous attack on roadside restaurants. If you spot one that has "a neon light out front, a mess of chromium inside, and an easily evident juke box," he wrote, "what you get to eat would poison an ostrich . . . They will take a perfectly good horse-burger out of the freezer, and it comes to the customer, after subjection to the stove, a deep shade of grey and curled at the edges . . . There is no law which says that a roll or a piece of bread must...
...interest in the Times, immediately went to work to make things hot for the competition. In his first issue last week, Carter cleaned out a lot of the dull clutter from the anemic Times, gave it some reader-building liver injections by adding five new columns (the Alsops, Robert Ruark, Earl Wilson, Lee Bedford's "Southern Exposure," Carter's own weekly, "Looking at the South," already syndicated in 16 other papers). In the lead Times editorial, Publisher Carter tapped out a clean-cut statement of his own credo: "We want [the Times] to be a mirror in which...
...would like to comment on the article in TIME, Sept. 11, regarding the drafting of doctors, and on the statement of Robert Ruark, whom you quote as follows: "To beat a draft and knock off a free medical education is quite a feat ... I wouldn't weep for [this group] if they all got drafted on private's pay. They owe us some interest on the loan...
...many fields other than medicine and dentistry, but I have yet to hear of a draft of engineers, chaplains, or language students. Because pilots are trained at Government expense, they are not asked to fly at private's pay as has been suggested for us by Mr. Ruark...