Word: week-ends
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...official rides the airlines more than SEChairman Kennedy. In the last year he has flown more than 65,000 miles. Lately in one week he flew to San Francisco for the opening of a regional branch office, on to Los Angeles (with a stop-over at San Simeon to chat with William Randolph Hearst) and back to Washington via Pittsburgh. At the week's end he hopped to Manhattan. About once a fortnight he manages to week-end with his wife and as many of his nine children as he can collect-in the winter at Palm Beach...
...smart serialist, like a good businessman, surveys the market, knows what the public wants. When Faith Baldwin had published 28 books, including a dozen best selling romances about modern business women (The Office Wife, Week-End Marriage, Self-Made Woman, White Collar Girl), she decided that her public might like to read a family saga. Mazo de la Roche had made a phenomenal success with her Jalna books. Last year Faith Baldwin plunged into a set of serious novels tracing the development of a typical middle class family from its U. S. beginning to the present. Partly sober realism, partly...
...After a long week-end at Hyde Park the President attended graduation exercises at West Point, told a new class of second lieutenants that they must think of their responsibilities to the U. S. in peace as well as in war. Then, in a practical-joking mood, he returned to Washington to review the final parade of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. Sitting in a covered stand before the White House while the Shriners marched past him in a pouring rain, he was in high spirits, because by his telephoned request...
...Weyerhaeuser departed for Seattle and two notices were published, according to the kidnappers' directions, in the Post-Intelligencer, the first saying, "expect to be ready to come Monday," the second pleading: "Due publicity beyond our control please indicate another method reaching you. Hurry relieve anguished mother." But the week-end passed without George's return. Of all George's friends and relations, most optimistic was his schoolteacher. Said she: "He has such an endearing personality I don't think his kidnappers would harm...
...more receptive to suggestion and advice. It was he who saw the value of installing in the Times building the Pynson Printers, a small shop conducted by Elmer Adler (no kin), devoted to the finest craftsmanship. Since Mr. Sulzberger has been active head man, the Times has established a week-end news review, a daily book review of astonishingly free viewpoint. But no observer expects the Times to be changed fundamentally from the institution created by Adolph Ochs. Even if he could do it, Arthur Hays Sulzberger would...