Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Italy last week, sport fans roared of an affront to national dignity. In Paris, the French Foreign Ministry tendered its regrets to the Italian embassy. At week's end, the French Tour director announced a slight detour: the last half of the race will bypass Italy...
...Stretch on the River is a slight and rambling saga and its humor runs largely to wisecracks, but it has a fine, easy familiarity with river life and describes its spell with casual, vernacular effectiveness. Though the book is no Huckleberry Finn, it has some of Mark Twain's own feeling for the rugged, easygoing river hands on the Mississippi...
...television industry expected, summer brought a slight dent in its selling boom. But television's biggest producer, Radio Corp. of America, last week decided that the off season was just the proper time to push its sales all the harder. As it brought out a new line of 18 models, priced $40 to $200 lower than its previous sets, RCA announced a whopping advertising program, estimated at $20 million. This week, in the Sunday editions of 40 U.S. newspapers with a combined circulation of 10,760,000, RCA will launch its campaign with 12-to 16-page inserts...
Precisely at 5:30 a.m., slight, blond Ed Easton, 44, W-T & S rewrite man, finished pounding out a picture caption, shut his desk in the third-floor city room and turned in his copy. To Executive Editor
...major work by a great French novelist is making its first appearance in English. But because of curious circumstances and the laggard energy for which publishers are noted, there has been a slight delay of 115 years between French composition and English publication. This is how it happened...