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...most glaring and improbable McSheehyisms. A belligerent, charming, oldfashioned, long-winded politician who loved the sound of his own voice, McSheehy orated on & on-and was loved for his majesty of phrasing. Students of metaphor-mixing compared him to Philadelphia's famed ex-Councilman Charles Pommer, a slapdash stylist with a less subtle ear ("I have always been man enough to stand on my own two shoulders"-TIME, Nov. 20, 1939). He was also ranked with Hollywood's Samuel Goldwyn, an executive whose high-salaried writers are often suspected of improving on the Goldwyn quotations ("They are always...
...Stylist. In Los Angeles, Hans Spangenberg, lover of labials, despiser of sibilants, asked court permission to change his name to Valcour Berne de Belair...
...cases in the history of the American press-is the Associated Press a monopoly?-finally reached court last week. On the expediting court bench sat three of the country's top-rank jurists, all of the U. S. Circuit Court: 1) learned Judge Learned Hand, 71, a remarkable stylist, liberal, a truly brilliant judge; 2) his cousin, Augustus Noble Hand, 73, singularly gifted with horse sense; 3) Thomas Walter Swan, 65, longtime (1916-37) dean of Yale's law school...
...Pole it consists of the sort of talk that might be had, by the hour, from any boozy, bawdy, abundant newspaperman. Such talk is dull in spots, complacently boorish in others, childish in some of its conclusions (Westbrook Pegler, though mentally "the human saddle sore" is as a prose stylist "one of the great writers of our day"). At its worst the book has at least the charm of its dialect: the dialect of the vigorous, honest, somewhat cornfed gentlemen of the press. At its best it is" thick with good eccentrics, good phrases, good stories...
...term "tennis bums" was found for proficient young men who drifted from tournament to tournament, expenses paid. Top-flight players-Fred Perry, the ping-pong stylist, Ellsworth Vines, the lanky speed king, Don Budge, the redheaded wonder-turned pro and went on tour. Graceful girls in shorts refreshed the nation's sport pages. But top-flight competition could not survive World War II. "Somehow, anything seems more important at this point than tennis," said Ted Schroeder, before the tournament. The end of such pleasures was at hand...