Word: short
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...then a careless Pantagraph printer may space out a short front-page column with a local item, but no printer commits the sin twice. Besides Frank Starzel, about the only Pantagraph editor to break the Page One rule was Adlai E. Stevenson, one of the five grandchildren and heirs of the late Pantagraph publisher William O. Davis. During a short hitch as assistant managing editor years ago, Stevenson (who is still a major stockholder in the Pantagraph) dared to put an area story-of a southern Illinois tornado -on the front page...
...actual tons and a volume within hollering distance of the 2,525,000-ton alltime peak set in December 1956. As customers hurried to build up depleted inventories and hedge against the threat of a strike or higher prices in July, some mills even began to ration short products on an informal basis. Steelmen expect the big demand to run through the second quarter at least, make it the biggest in steel's history...
...international character of Guterma's operations was also limelighted last week when Canadian Stock Broker J. Ernest Savard of Savard & Hart was suspended from Montreal and Toronto stock exchanges because his firm's capital had fallen short of requirements after involvement in a Guterma deal...
...Acts, meets all the specifications for women's historical fiction. He is lithe, blond, radiantly handsome and invincible at fencing, foot races, discus-throwing and the standing broad jump. He is an accomplished linguist and, of course, a shrewd internist and master surgeon; he often needs only a short talk or a touch of the hand to heal the sick...
...Hail Marys and purple Passion ("She stood against the background of the hot and brazen mounts, and it seemed to him that she had grown very tall, and that she was clothed in pure light, and that her face beamed like the moon when it was full"'). In short, the book-a sure bestseller-is about on a par with the five-and-ten plaster statues of the saints and prettily painted picture postcards of Christ...