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Explained the Tribune's editors to Reader O'Toole and other disappointed Capp fans: the omitted strips "constituted a personal attack upon another prominent cartoonist. The Tribune does not allow its reporters, editors or columnists to vent personal malice . . . and it believes the same rule ought to apply to comic-strip artists...
...chairman said that McCarthy's accusations of innocent people will lead to the stifling of diversities of opinions. At this time, Straight declared, it is important that "our minds be unfettered by fear," and that we give vent to a "clash of ideas." Straight added that we must have "courage to be unafraid of this (McCarthy's) kind of smear...
...next New Masses editor we rope in").* The happy couple settled down in Greenwich Village, where life would have been sheer heaven if only the first Mrs. Lyman, who was "tall, willowy and beautiful" and possessed "seven million dollars, strictly in government bonds," hadn't given vent to the "strong streak of dog-in-the-manger in her character" by persistently dropping in "for a good...
About 5% of all workers, Dr. McMurry believes, are chronic malcontents and 1% are paranoids. He says that such workers join unions to vent their unresolved, aggressive impulses upon management. He believes that union leaders fall into three main groups: 1) sincere idealists; 2) emotionally immature neurotics who tend to be exhibitionists; 3) psychopathic personalities who regard labor as a racket...
...Fascism's heyday, Italy's press minded its political p's & q's, covered celebrities from a respectful distance and avoided sensations like the plague. But at war's end, editors gave violent vent to long-suppressed enterprise and emotions. They soaked their pages in sentimental crime stories, enthusiastically badgered headliners from Winston Churchill to Ingrid Bergman, encouraged reporters and photographers to operate like workers in the gaudiest days of Chicago journalism...