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...collector's item [May 28]. The tall rounded capitals show her artistic ability, and the regularity in the size of her letters and the straightness of her lines indicate strong will and ability to stick to any course she chooses. She enjoys solitude, as the slight backward slant of her handwriting shows, although her large script reveals that she doesn't mind being the center of attention. She is quite frugal-notice that there is hardly any margin on either side, and little on the top or bottom of each page...
...what that reform should be. Said an American Jesuit delegate after last week's election: "He wants to update the structure of the order. He sees the need for advanced studies. He's a man of big ideas in the right sense. He has a mystical slant and knows the meaning of prayer-without being stuffy...
February's Cosmopolitan made some disparaging remarks about an author named Helen Gurley Brown. "Despite her book, Sex and the Office, which equates the office affair with a gay lark," the article admonished, Mrs. Brown has the wrong slant. "Career girls who have been burned or who have seen their friends burned, offer one loud word of advice, 'Don't!' " Now Hearst's Cosmopolitan seems to have changed its mind. Last week Helen Gurley Brown, 43, was named editor...
...data it collected before it parachuted back to Earth promises to stir up a lively astronomical argument. Mariner confirmed earlier radiotelescope observations and reported that the Venusian surface is far too hot and dry to support any Earth-type life. The flying telescope got a vastly different slant. After careful analysis, says Hopkins Balloon Astron omer John Strong, he is convinced that the clouds hiding the Venusian surface are made of ice particles, just like the Earth's high clouds. And if Venus has that amount of water around, it may also have some sort of life...
...first place, your entire editorial was slanted unmistakably toward the Democratic side. This slant has been a notable characteristic of all your coverage of the New York race thus far. If your editorial writer were forced into a corner and thumbscrews were applied, I am afraid he would have to admit that deep down in his heart he believed that any Democrat is better than any Republican. This is not a good attitude with which to write an unbiased editorial; it is reminiscent of the attitude and position taken by the New Republic, which, although not voicing any particular criticism...