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...paper was floundering, and staff morale sank. The Trib had ample gimmicks but little direction. "Editorially," says New York Times Executive Editor Turner Catledge, "they couldn't seem to make up their minds whether to slug it out toe-to-toe with us or to try to outflank us." The Trib still had stars: Drama Critic Walter Kerr, TV Critic John Crosby, Fashion Editor Eugenia Sheppard, Food Editor Clementine Paddle-ford; Columnists Red Smith, Art Buchwald, Joe Alsop and Walter Lippmann; Pulitzer Prizewinning Korean War Correspondents Homer Bigart and Marguerite Higgins. But while they still provided some bite...
...began to read Fangs A Lot [April 8]. I had so much pun galloping through your pheasantries that my crocodile tears fell so fast I thought I needed an eye-viper. It gladdened my hart to see the tears had fallen into the glass. Instantly I addered a mastiff slug of raw animal spirits, with ice-"crocs on the rocks"-thrush snaking my thirst in a swallow. Delicious. Pity I had no horse d'oeuvre. Such a stag party may never be held again. On the otter hand, I wonder wether the savoir-fare of your report could...
...light of hand, light of heart, and light of foot, possibly because the cast is barefoot most of the time. This sparklingly talented company (five men, three girls) seems to share its songs rather than sell them, knows how to sail its jokes across the footlights rather than slug them, and times its spoofy skits to the precise half note (which is what a minim...
...lousy slob!" says Dilwick the police chief. "Shut up, pig," says Mike Hammer-for him, an exquisitely genteel response. He has already extracted several of Dilwick's teeth with his knuckles, later subjects him to a fatal phlebotomy with a .38-cal. slug. The action in Mickey Spillane's 18th book is embossed with his usual delicate imagery ("The sun was thumbing its nose at the night"), characterization ("On some people skin is skin, but on her it was an invitation to dine"), and grammar ("You lay there, kid"; "I thought I could discern shouts"). As always...
...service station to buy gas and use the men's room, he got into an argument with Attendant Marvin Segrest, 67, with whom he had quarreled several times previously. Segrest went to a desk drawer, pulled out a gun, and fired twice. Younge fell dead with a .38 slug near his left...