Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Indelicate is one word to describe Washington newsmen who keep harping to Ike about his health and reduction of his work load. These patriots err by putting all their eggs in one basket. If they are really concerned for the country's good, let them also visit the halls of Congress where absenteeism is said to be high...
...nation's biggest-and most botched-running stories: the recession. Though more than 50.000 workers are out of jobs in Georgia's four largest cities, the Atlanta Journal has zealously kept the state's slump off the front page, and, until last week, even banned the word recession from the paper...
...yellow pad. Against one of journalism's toughest deadlines-he usually has barely an hour to catch an edition after the first-night curtain falls-he sends his polished copy through in one-paragraph "takes." When a review is finished, he reads the proof but seldom changes a word...
Teacher's Pet (Perlberg-Seaton; Paramount). Clark Gable is the city editor of a big metropolitan daily, a self-made man whose every word proclaims what can be done with good material by bad workmanship. Doris Day is an instructor of journalism. When she invites Gable to address her class, he replies with a sneer: "In the school I graduated from, there were no lectures without four-letter words in them ... I think you're wasting your time, and I prefer not to waste mine...
...portrait of the artist at work, but he himself no longer has the time or spirit to paint. Cognac consoles him with the illusion of creativity, and girls with the illusion of vitality. After that, Jonas' decline is swift, sure and touching. Dying, he scribbles one word on a blank canvas, but no one can be sure "whether it should be read solitary or solidary" (i.e., at one with society). Moral: wooing the Muse is not half so important, or difficult, as staying married...