Word: writer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from deploring that "handwriting was becoming a lost art" [TIME, Feb. 10], many outstanding present-day psychologists and psychiatrists feel that the script portrays accurately the writer's character traits, being conditioned by the complexities of his personality. As a result of many investigations within the last two decades, a whole technique has been built around this phenomenon in the form of scientific handwriting analysis, which is considered among the most exact projective methods in order to determine character structure...
...Saturday most of the 9,000 crisis words were on their way to the Foreign News writer in New York who was to do the story. Late that night Gibbs and Osborne (who had been doing his own interviewing of Government and utilities officials, etc. all week, as well as coordinating the coverage) managed to get through to a Government official so closely and highly involved that they had given up hope of reaching him. They talked for an hour. Said Osborne...
...while Joe was an ardent proselytizer for the Newspaper Guild, until he decided that Communists had infiltrated the union. Also, as he began to gain a reputation as a long-winded but conscientious political writer, he began to feel uppity about being lumped with clerks, office boys and stenographers in one union. He quit. The individualist Ball emerged in full flower...
Seattle's Station KOMO means to wring the very best out of its scriptwriters. Last week, architects were at work on the Thinking Room of KOMO's new studio building. Immediately before he gives birth to a script, the writer will be confined in the Thinking Room for appropriate mood-building. KOMO's President O. W. Fisher explains enthusiastically: "Suppose we have a program about Polish refugees being sent back to Poland. The writer will sit in this room, lighted in a blue-greenish color. The room will be cold. We'll have Polish folks songs...
From another ecclesiastical quarter came another assault on casual divorces: The Methodist Church announced that it had hired high-priced Radio Writer Carlton (One Man's Family) Morse to do a series of eight transcription shows explaining 13 basic Methodist ideas on how to keep a marriage intact. Sudsy title of the recordings, which the Methodists plan to ship free to every U.S. radio station: So You Want to Stay Married...