Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...short and stuffy life there had never been anything like the meetings of the Subcommission on Freedom of Information and of the Press, gathered at Lake Success last week to erect an agenda for a full-dress conference next year. The ten men around the wide table made no set formalized speeches, pillowed no punches in diplomatic niceties. They flubbed parliamentary procedure and generally had a fine time talking frank talk. With one exception, they were men who had worked long at journalism. The exception was tweedy, dry-humored Zechariah Chafee Jr., Harvard professor...
...back of the book, the Saturday Evening Post had changed a lot in 18 years, and generally for the better. There was more fact than fiction on the bill of fare, and the helpings were smaller. Of the ten articles, not one explained a tycoon's secret of success in terms of sobriety, thrift and an 18-hour day. The dowdy "Post Old Style" type was long since gone; clean-cut Bodoni dressed the pages. Up front the hors d'oeuvres included a chatty letters column, with a grateful note from Reader Robert A. Taft, a bitter bleat...
...forthcoming memoirs. He banished prettified dog portraits and elaborately styled gag covers, made the word Post stand out on the cover, and the words Saturday-Evening seem almost whispered. (The accent is the same in the radio plugs and the Post's smart promotion ads.) The success stories changed: "Today," Hibbs says, "we'd rather talk about the second mate on a freight boat than the captain of the America...
...Many students held that the excellence of the lectures was chiefly responsible for the success of the courses," Committee co-chairman John W. McNulty '48 said last night...
...Freshmen have a better chance of success against the Bulldog yearlings, having suffered only one defeat in five starts so far this season. One ominous note is the fact that the Deerfield Varsity, which was leading the Crimson 4 to 2 in an incomplete match, suffered a 7 to 2 trouncing at the hands of Yale in a later match...