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Atkinson and Daley, both of the N.Y. Times, indicated they were taking completely different attitudes toward their enforced idleness. "Thanks for your hospitable offer," Atkinson wired. "But eventually I hope the Times will publish what I am writing during the strike period. I'm not going stale from lack of work. Whatever happens, don't let Walter, Frank and the other CRIMSON printing boys strike...
...union. Whether they were trying to overthrow the government is debatable, but unless one reads through a dense fog of prejudice, the Rosenberg and Hiss trials, the Congressional sub-committee reports and other recent history, he cannot avoid this conclusion. Since new facts have been turning up with the stale ones almost every week, the conspiracy may have gone even deeper than is now apparent. People who have been too long in a university community may not be fully aware of the virtual unanimity with which the American public supports the purpose of the committees--with votes, mail, and public...
Nagged by the thought that he might become typed as a ventriloquist and some day go stale, Winchell began taking on straight acting roles ("I want to become so flexible that I just can't get into a rut"), today does a weekly seven-minute dramatic sketch midway in his comedy show. He turns down most offers to guest-star his ventriloquist act on other television programs, but he keeps an ear cocked for calls for Paul Winchell, actor. It's not that he doesn't have enormous affection for his wooden pal Jerry, but he asks...
Paul Kiepe's letter [Aug. 24] on bread is a mouthful, and not of America's present-day loaf, either. Why, it won't even get stale ! Whenever the bakers of this country - excusing the independent souls in our small towns who still know what bread is - stop turning out stuff that is absorbent cotton in the mouth and lead in the stomach, bread will become once more a part of America's diet, reducing or otherwise...
...have been finding things it can stop doing rather than new things for it to do." The Administration's great advantage: "The men directing the work . . . are uncompromised by years of political promises and campaign oratory. They are not prisoners of their own past mistakes, or their own stale habits of handling public affairs...