Word: slapdash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Readers of Drew Pearson's enterprising but frequently slapdash syndicated column often have trouble separating fact from fancy. Last week Columnist Pearson solved the problem with a handy "grade label" guide, if not for the readers of his column, at least for subscribers to his new ($50 a year) weekly newsletter. Personal from Pearson. The guide: "√A story we have attempted to check without success, or a story which is impossible to check. √√A story we believe to be true but have not been able to authenticate. √√√A . . . story we've been...
...Indonesian art, Affandi's 48 pictures are a curious combination of East and West. He paints anything that catches his eye-huge Western bridges, gritty red-light districts, stolid water buffaloes, dead chickens, his friends, his toilworn mother. And he paints them with obvious emotion: his lines are slapdash, his colors sometimes slop together in incoherence. But more often the result he gets is a soaring, faintly oriental fantasy...
...supplies a few Michigan and California stations with beer commercials (Goebel Brewing Co.) which are so attractive that one station has actually received requests to "play it again." Most of Joop's commercials run about 20 seconds, feature remarkably lifelike, plastic puppets moving stringlessly, smoothly and expressively through slapdash roles. Only near the end of the "puppetoon" does the audience get the well-cushioned plug...
...death of Grozier's son Richard in 1946, the paper was technically under the direction of two executors. Actually, City Editor Dunn, Managing Editor Charles R. Doyle and Sunday Editor John Griffin ran the editorial side pretty much as they liked. Sentimentally fond of the Post's slapdash makeup, they came to feel it was "just the way the readers like...
Jack Lait, editor of the New York Daily Mirror, and his nightclub columnist Lee Mortimer are old hands at libel. In their first three "Confidential" books they picked up no fewer than six libel suits.* By last week their latest slapdash gutter-side view of America, U.S.A. Confidential (TIME, March 17), was well on its way to outstripping the other three. A $1,000,000 suit brough by Maine's Senator Margaret Chase Smith, for bringing her into "scandals as an associate of and sympathizer with Communists," was the sixth in three months. The others...