Word: writed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What Jim Bishop is doing is writing a new thrice-weekly newspaper column that, as Hearst's King Features Syndicate explains with a gush, "opens to readers his heart-warming world of laughter, love and tears." The column, "Jim Bishop: Reporter," is already running in 66 dailies. It has landed Bishop a contract that, with other assignments for the Hearst press, guarantees him a minimum $65,000 a year, has earned him syndicate billing as "The HOTTEST Writer in America" and the opportunity to "go anywhere, write anything...
Famed chiefly for his bestselling recreations of great events (The Day Lincoln Was Shot, The Day Christ Died), Author Bishop insists that he is "not to be confused with a pundit." "Most of all," he assured readers, "I like to write stories about little people . . . A story a day. Each one, I hope, with a thought-provoking moral." In its first three weeks the column heart-warmed readers with stories about Bandleader Frankie Carle, "little man at the big piano"; Bishop's little mother, "a short, stout woman [with] a beautiful figure"; his two little daughters; an auto accident...
...People: Pope Pius XII ("he has the bone hurting handshake of a farm boy") and the late Broadway columnist Mark Hellinger-who gave Biographer Bishop (The Mark Hellinger Story) early, well-heeded lessons in Hearstmanship. Sample Hellinger commandments to Bishop: "Use only short words"; "the way to write a sob story is to be callous"; "before writing, always read a few hundred words of your favorite author...
With the U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding Idaho Power Co.'s private three-dam plan (TIME, April 15), the bitter battle over Hells Canyon seemed over at last. But last week the fight flared anew after the Office of Defense Mobilization granted Idaho Power a fast tax write-off on 65% of the cost of its $67.1 million Brownlee dam and on 60% of its $35.9 million Oxbow dam. In effect the write-off gives Idaho Power an interest-free loan of about $30 million for five years...
...write-off was hardly a "political theft" since 913 power projects, including some in Byrd's own state, have received similar tax breaks in the past seven years. Furthermore, while the company will save in taxes in the dam's less profitable early years, its depreciation deductions will later shrink just when its profits rise, and eventually it will pay the tax saving back...