Word: slam-bang
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Shirtsleeved Editor Shipler got into plenty of fights, never backed away from one. Pounding out slam-bang editorials against the corruption of Hollywood, he ended up on the wrong end of a $10,200 libel judgment against The Churchman. But in the late '305, his zeal, which was also sharply anti-Rome, began to find new, political channels of expression. The details of the trend were laid down in a 3,000-word document produced last week by Leon Birkhead to support his statement that The Churchman is "involved with the Communist line." The Birkhead document includes "a selected...
...price of three sticks of gum, the New Yorker can escape his harried, subway-riding existence and enter the gaudy, slam-bang world of the tabloid Daily News and Mirror. There life can be newsy, glamorous, compassionate and sinful all at once. In Hearst's Mirror one morning last week, millions of readers of a paternity-suit story met a long-lashed brunette...
...best part of the meet ought to be the saber event. Last year's captain. John Gay, returned from a vacation in Maine last month and has spent most of his time practicing in the Indoor Athletic Building. A real slam-bang artist, Gay will fence as number one man in sabers...
...last night of his slam-bang Wisconsin campaign, Candidate Harold Stassen gave a little dinner party at La Crosse for the newsmen who had accompanied his final drive. Then he drove back across the Minnesota line to his home in St. Paul. Next morning he slept late, napped in the afternoon, played a game of chess with his son Glen. After a quiet family supper he flipped on the radio, started listening to broadcast returns and the excited telephone calls from his Wisconsin managers. By 10 o'clock that night Harold Stassen knew...
Stevenson, who has never campaigned for office, planned no slam-bang fight. He would work hard, but quietly. Most of the fireworks would come from Douglas. He announced that, as one ex-marine dealing with another, he hoped to blast Curly Brooks "in every county, every town and before every factory gate" in Illinois...