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DREISER, by W. A. Swanberg. A crude, naive natural writer, Dreiser was the founder and embodiment of the realistic school of writing that shocked the country in the first decades of this century. His life, like his work, was stubborn, untidy and wayward. Biographer Swanberg (Citizen Hearst) has made the most...
DREISER, by W. A. Swanberg. A crude, naive natural writer. Dreiser was the founder and embodiment of the realistic school of writing that shocked the country in the first decades of this century. His life, like his work, was stubborn, untidy and wayward. Biographer Swanberg (Citizen Hearst) has made the most...
...violate the city ordinance that prohibits dogs from running loose. After pursuing Mike for 45 minutes down streets, over front lawns and across a muddy ballpark where he lost his slippers, Hughes finally wearied of the chase and returned to his mansion. Next he tried summoning his wayward pooch with a hunting horn. After awaking the neighborhood, the Governor gave up and Mike wandered home. "He seemed," said his master, "to have enjoyed it very much...
Memories of J.F.K. Some columnists are not only peppering the President for his wayward press relations; they are also slicing up the heretics in their own camp who have had the temerity to say a kind word for Johnson. "The President was clearly the direct source of descriptions of his irritation with a 'too demanding press' by two syndicated columnists," wrote the New York Times's Arthur Krock, acidly referring to Fellow Columnists William S. White and Marquis Childs. Their words, said Krock, "are words with the bark on, affixed with the brand L.B.J...
...have spent a great deal of time searching on the floor and taking drain pipes apart looking for wayward contact lenses [Ian. 29], but I think you are mean, mean, mean about us 6,000,000 wearers of contacts. We are not all starey-eyed, status-seeking basketball-player types. Contacts improved my vision (20, 80) to 20 25, and are directly responsible for my qualifying for a driver's license, getting through college and being able to work as a teacher for a living...