Word: whisperer
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Already world leaders have expressed their congratulations. In Rome Madame Nhu called the book "a dramatic coup." The editors of Confidential and Whisper asked for "enough copies for everyone on our staff." Barry Goldwater said "I have always had great admiration for the youth of America...
Steirman first tested the proposition in 1958, when he bought two exposé magazines, Whisper and Confidential, from their former publisher, Robert Harrison, who had been fined $10,000 for publishing obscenity. Under Steirman, the magazines have become about as racy as racing programs, and combined newsstand sales have dropped to 510,000 from a peak of 4,100,000. But Steirman claims that both are in the black. In 1961, he resurrected Blue Book, a man's magazine dropped by McCall Corp. five years earlier as a bad job. Steirman's Bluebook for Men has a newsstand...
...whisper of childhood, as we touch cheeks...
...gibes of high-born courtiers from the day she was installed in the palace in 1745 until the day she died there-after dutifully getting the King's permission to do so-in 1764. At first her intellectual mentor, Voltaire, had to correct her in a whisper at state dinners because her middle-class turn of phrase was so foreign to the phony formulas of the court. Her surname (Poisson, which means fish) was an endless source of cruel merriment...
...cheerful dignity, but on this day a doleful dirge. On the steps, Caroline brushed a tear from her eye. John-John, who was to have had his third birthday party that day, suddenly looked up and saw the flag on his father's casket. Jackie leaned over to whisper to him, and he saluted. The funeral procession began the last three miles to the cemetery...