Word: writer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chore. Cried Laundry Worker Amy Ballinger: "What about the man who buys you an icebox or a sweeper as a gift? A man marries you and says 'You go down in the cellar and do the washing.' The hell with him." Piped Edith M. Stern, a magazine writer: "The mechanical gadgets are just the old-fashioned spinning wheel in modern dress...
...spelled further Presidential slaps to the face of the Left. The issue was fought out in sessions of the political policy drafting committee. Careerist Democrats Paul Porter (ex-OPA chief) and Hubert Humphrey (upcoming Minneapolis Mayor) held that the wording must go easy; they blistered committee opponents such as writer Robert Bendiner of The Nation. On the floor Harvard Liberal Union delegates touched off a successful campaign to attack specifically, through amendment to the committee report, "weak appointments" by Truman and his failure to "mobilize full strength" behind the enactment of enunciated progressive measures...
Compare those two statements: "Communist teachers not dangerous," and "Communist teachers do not present a threat to our universities today." There is a world of difference in meaning. But to the fatigued newspaper headline writer, they merely count differently...
...wish to call your attention to a misquotation in the Religion section of your issue of Feb. 2. The writer for that section has placed an extra "not" in his quotation of Cardinal Griffin's statement concerning the effect of contraceptive devices on the validity of marriage. This mistake changes the entire meaning. . . . One would expect a magazine like TIME with its great facilities and circulation to be more careful in its proofreading-or hire a more competent Religion Editor...
...from a complainant named Guy K. Benson, of Manhattan. Benson wrote that he was a small stockholder in their companies and that he thought their salaries too high; they should be cut. The presidents had no way of knowing that Forbes Magazine had put Mr. Benson, a free-lance writer, up to his letter-sending. It wanted to make a sly test of corporate public relations...