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...Hemingway offered his story as he sailed for Spain. On his forehead were bruises, on his arms, scars. His version: "Max Eastman didn't do that to me. I got so mad . . . that I wound up by throwing the book in his face. I didn't really sock him. If I had I might have knocked him through the window and out into Fifth Avenue. That would have been fine, wouldn't it? I just held him off. I didn't want to hurt...
...newspaper's managing editor, Louis Ruppel, believes that "Medicine has lots of mystery, lots of intrigue, lots of sock. That's what the public wants." Two years ago he roused considerable reader interest and increased his circulation by a series called "Seven Days in the Kankakee State Hospital." The diligent reporter who gathered that material, Frank Smith, 34, had spent two-and-a-half months this summer researching around the Mayo Clinic for the new series to which Dr. Will...
Mayo now was objecting. Believing he had another sock medical yarn, Editor Ruppel replied: "The Times appreciated the feeling expressed by Dr. W. J. Mayo in the telegram reproduced above. But the editors believe the Mayo Clinic is an institution in which all Americans and most citizens of the civilized world have a vital interest...
...shoot at, for Percy Leo Crosby put it all down in pen & ink years ago in the old Life with a single drawing of a tattered youngster gazing at a rural vista and saying: "Gee, it's so beeyoo-tiful I'd like to give somebody a sock...
...Stahlman's friends back in Nashville who had signed Bozo's name to the telegram of congratulations had wished him luck. "I'll need it," said he. "They should have sent me their sympathy." Jarred to its sacroiliac by the skull-thumping sock of the Supreme Court decision in the Watson v. Associated Press case (TIME, April 19), the spine of U. S. newspaper publishing ached last week...