Word: telle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...caught the scent. He echoed the baying from the far left, also saw Forrestal plotting a Wall Street dictatorship. Leaping on a civil-defense bill prepared at Forrestal's direction, he shrilled that if the bill passed, "you may be in jail for reasons they will not even tell you. You think you are sitting in your homes tonight but. . . you and your liberties are again standing at Valley Forge." The liberal St. Louis Post-Dispatch said of the plan: "The sooner it is enacted . . . the more soundly the nation can sleep at night." But wakeful Winchell repeated...
...secrecy. For more than six months, in Washington and London, experts of seven nations, like diligent sculptors, had chipped away at it behind closed doors. They were still not ready to unveil their handiwork, the North Atlantic Alliance. But last week, the State Department started a sales campaign to tell the U.S. what its general form would be. To newsmen, the department handed out a 4,000-word brochure, titled "Building the Peace-Collective Security in the North Atlantic Area...
China-born Spencer Moosa had not covered the Chinese war since 1931 without learning a few things about censors. Last week the knowledge came in handy. When the first Chinese Communist shells exploded in Peiping, Associated Press Correspondent Moosa tried to tell the world. The Nationalist censor said no. So Old China Hand Moosa banged out a furious message to the A.P. explaining why he couldn't report that Peiping was under bombardment. The censor passed it-and Moosa had his beat. Excerpts...
Considine also wrote The Babe Ruth Story, helped Harold Stassen with Where I Stand, and Poland's ex-Premier Mikolajczyk with The Rape of Poland. He thinks ghosting "an honorable profession." Says he: "There are lots of guys with a story to tell, and there's nothing dishonorable in their not being able to tell it, or in someone helping them tell...
Elmo Roper, whose poll on the last election had been as wrong as the others, last week stopped his syndicated weekly newspaper column ("What People Are Thinking"). Roper said he still thinks it important to tell what people think, but he wants to spend more time investigating why they think that...