Word: told
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arriving in Manhattan, Playwright-Actor Noel Coward appeared to be in a grave, no-nonsense mood befitting his years (50 this week). Undismayed that his last three plays have been failures in London, he told the New York Times: "I shall write new comedies, for I have a great wit and I am a gifted man as well as being a very hard worker...
...more attention to a reporter's basic tenet of checking on the reliability of sources. Many papers, notably the Hopkins-hating Hearst press, bayed off in such excitement last week that they hardly bothered even to qualify their headlines. Cried the San Francisco Examiner: ATOM GIFT TO RUSS TOLD. The Columbus, Ohio Evening Dispatch blared...
...silver anniversary banquet, President Robie D. Marriner of the American Textbook Publishers Institute called the Johnson workbook "as significant as any contribution of teacher training itself during the last 25 years." To W.P., it was significant for another reason: it just went to show, he told banqueters, that a man can start with $100 and end up with a million, just by minding...
...York's Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, allowing the Methodists no chance to feel too complacent, told them that two important threats are facing the church: Communism and Roman Catholicism...
Such groups, Archbishop Gushing told the Archdiocesan Union of Holy Name Societies, were a "refined form of the Ku Klux Klan." Cautioning Catholics against being "dazzled" by slogans about separation of church and state, and similar "glittering generalities," he said: "Our people are in a very precarious position thanks to the extremely hard, though evil work, which contemporary anti-Catholics have done . . . The damage they are accomplishing in creating prejudice on the one hand and uneasiness on the other is very considerable indeed...