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FRANK J. PRINCE, MAIN UNIVERSAL MATCH OWNER, is EX-CONVICT, trumpeted a St. Louis Post-Dispatch headline over a long story carrying the byline of tough, tireless Reporter Ted Link. The story told how Frank Prince, 71, principal stockholder in St. Louis' Universal Match Corp. and a complex of subsidiary firms, had, between 1908 and 1925, served three prison terms, totaling nearly ten years, for forgery, grand larceny, and issuing fraudulent checks. Two days later the PD, in its ice-cold charity, followed up with another Prince piece, repeating the same facts and adding a few of even less...
...frontier, which borders on Laos, in tight little communities of their own, the refugees clung fiercely to their own language, built their houses on the ground instead of on stilts as is the Thai custom, and kept their ears glued to the voice from home-Hanoi radio, with its tireless Communist propaganda. Soon Ho Chi Minh's agents from North Viet Nam organized the refugees by means of a slickly efficient "invisible government," which controlled education among the Vietnamese, operated secret courts and even prescribed military training...
...swirled up in the great attempt to stop Tennessee's Estes Kefauver from getting the vice-presidential nomination, missed getting the nomination himself by a thin 38½ votes. Since his re-election to the Senate by a record Massachusetts vote in 1958, he has waged a tireless, continuous campaign in all 50 states for the Democratic presidential nomination...
...miracle of The Miracle Worker is that night after night, the militant kook from The Bronx and the tireless kid from Manhattan tenements re-create with consuming vitality the remarkable collaboration between blind child and half-blind adult that blossomed in Tuscumbia, Ala. three-quarters of a century ago. So successful are the two actresses that Author Gibson is convinced they transcend the bounds of mere acting. "I've always felt the curtain call was haunted," says Gibson. "A high percentage of the applause is for the people who really lived...
...kissing, not for eating.' " Thereafter followed 200 words, drafted by Childrens Hospital, to the effect that mistletoe is poisonous when taken internally. What was remarkable about the story was not the toxicity of mistletoe but the transmission. One of the publicity man's newer gimmicks in his tireless assault on news space is the teleprinter, which delivers handouts to the city desk looking just like copy hot off the A.P. or U.P.I, machine...