Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Denver, Farm Editor Partridge thought he had a way. He flew to Oklahoma City (with a Post photographer), bought 15 lbs. of axle grease, and arranged for a veterinary to meet him at Mach...
...Oregon State, no charges of Communist Party membership had been made. Spitzer, a brilliant, fidgety man of 30, had been an active campaigner for Henry Wallace; his wife, an Oregon State student, was the firebrand of the campus Young Progressives organization. La Vallee, too, was a Wallaceite. Some students thought he was "pretty radical" in his economics classes, but he still taught his subject from standard texts. As for Spitzer, he had stuck pretty close to chemistry...
...Denver Post had no farm editor, but Ralph Partridge, the make-up man, thought the paper needed one. A farm boy himself, Partridge told Editor Palmer Hoyt that there was plenty of farm news if someone only had get-up-and-git to go after it. Three weeks ago, "Ep" Hoyt gave Partridge a chance to prove it; Partridge was made farm editor. Last week, Partridge proved his title...
...Post, with one-third of its 225,000 circulation in rural areas, thought that Partridge's trick, even for city-bred readers, was worth an eight-column. Page One headline: OKLAHOMA'S PRISONER-COW FREED FROM SILO. But Managing Editor Alexis McKinney had some misgivings: "I see trouble ahead. Every farmer will be yelling, 'Send us Partridge...
...slump in business at theaters, restaurants and clothing stores. Radio stations were carrying more news and more advertising, and two small weekly papers had switched to dailies, but they were not up to the job of telling the news. Not all Portlanders missed their newspapers. Some thought no news of the world's troubles was good news-at least for a while. Said a grocer: "Nothing's upset me all week. It's been mighty peaceful...