Word: tactlessness
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...beyond the Texas panhandle, Gene Howe, publisher of the Amarillo Globe and News, was fondly known as "Old Tack." His folksy daily column, "The Tactless Texan," was the most popular newspaper column in the state, and across Texas he was known as "Mr. Panhandle, Amarillo's one-man Chamber of Commerce." Ranch hands named their pet horses Old Tack, and readers named their children after him. Texans seldom recalled that "Mr. Panhandle" had actually been born in Kansas...
Died. Gene ("Old Tack") Howe, 66, publisher (1926-50) of the Amarillo Globe and News, whose daily column, "The Tactless Texan," was standard fare to thousands in the panhandle; by his own hand (gunshot); in Amarillo (see PRESS...
...Roman citizen At Rome he studied the Latin classics with a thoroughness few Christians of his day could match. His Scholarship later got him a job as a secretary to Pope Damasus, who encouraged him to begin his translation of the Bible. At the same time his just but tactless condemnations of Roman social life as a "sinful Babylon" almost got him run out of town. After Damasus died, he prudently went off to Palestine to be near the site of his story. He spent the next 35 years in Bethlehem at a monastery he founded himself...
...needed. Truman's long feud with Congress is rubbed raw by the President's open assumption that his estimates are exactly right and any others wrong. A humbler man would have outlined the problem, given his figure, stood ready to defend it in detail-and avoided tactless, advance insistence that every dollar he asked was essential...
...report on Sweden [TIME, Dec. 31] seems unfair, tactless, self-defeating...