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When Turner Catledge, a good, lively reporter, became managing editor of the New York Times two years ago, he started a quiet revolution to liven up the nation's No. 1 paper. Among the changes: sharper, more concise writing, more feature stories, better pictures, TIMEstyle paragraph marks to break . up stories, sprightlier headlines. One means of communication with the Times's massive staff (20 editors, 600 reporters, 80 copy editors): Winners & Sinners, a lively, irreverent house organ originated by Assistant Managing Editor Ted Bernstein. Bernstein's "bulletin of second-guessing" raps staffers when they are heavyhanded, sloppy...
...lived a life of unruffled domestic felicity that became a national legend.. Five of their six royal children were born at "dear old Sandringham," and during his wife's confinements, the King himself prepared and served her morning cup of tea. Mary, who was better schooled and sharper-witted than he, repaid his gruff affection by curbing his profanity (learned in the Royal Navy) and by teaching herself "to push the little balls around"-her phrase for the King's favorite game of billiards. In January 1936, the Queen wrote in the diary that her husband...
Since they came into office last January, Dwight Eisenhower's Cabinet officers and agency chiefs have been struggling to cut the $78.6 billion budget which they inherited from Harry Truman. Last week the struggle over the budget grew sharper...
Beyond the control or direct threat of the Red army, Communism is facing even sharper difficulties. Malenkov, in his funeral oration, extended Moscow's official sympathy to the Communists fighting in Korea and Indo-China, but significantly he said not one word about Malaya-a tacit admission of defeat there...
...Thus far, Ike has done so well that he has faced little violent criticism, even from the pundits, whose stock in trade is seasoned consideration of the errors and missteps of the national Administration. But criticism, bald and bitter, is sure to come. The opposition will become solider and sharper. New foreign and domestic developments will create new problems and new challenges. The first month was a lively preliminary; the main event is still to come...