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...that needed correction while Mark Twain wrote to make us laugh; but the rot . . . you dish out to describe Nina and all the other participites criminis in Gary's novel is unbelievable in the annals of decent literature, especially to a Southerner; we handle such affairs with a shotgun...
Edmond R. Schroeder '53, president of the HYRC, who earlier this week challenged the HLU to justify liberal support of the Stevenson-Sparkman ticket on the basis of its civil rights position, charged that its reply consisted of "a shotgun blast at Eisenhower, Nixon, and myself, and completely evaded the issue...
...Assistant City Editor J. J. (Joe) McManus, 55, managing editor. Star Reporter John Mannion, 43, became city editor. Fox promised that the Post would become a "lively, aggressive newspaper devoted to the public interest," and the new Postmen quickly made good on his promise. The Post's confusing "shotgun" makeup, which crowded a score or more stories on Page One by running only a few lines of some, gave way to fewer stories and a more eye-catching paper...
While one of the men stood by with a shotgun, Mrs. Hill called her cleaning woman to tell her that the car had broken down and she couldn't pick her up. A Fuller brush salesman telephoned, and she asked him to deliver the brushes she had ordered some other day. At 4 p.m., when Susan and Betsy came home from school and found Ballard guarding their mother (the other two had gone out somewhere on an errand), they thought it was some kind of joke...
That confidence, and the enormous in crease in the nation's prescription business (up 350% in the last ten years), reflect a revolution in U.S. medicine. In stead of writing a shotgun formula requiring half a dozen ingredients,* a doctor can now prescribe a single-bullet remedy, neatly packaged in advance, its purity guaranteed by the maker. Two-thirds of the drugs most commonly prescribed to day did not even exist 20 years ago. In place of the citrates and tartrates, the nux vomica and monkshood of an earlier day, the druggists' rows of glass-stoppered bottles...