Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...golden ears in exhaust fumes, cocktail onions.and punched commuters' tickets, cornfed Author Richard Bissell, who came east from Iowa to write the smash Broadway hit Pajama Game, decided to abandon Connecticut's exurbian lotus groves, take a summer's furlough in his native Dubuque. His reason: "The East seems to have a corner on the phony market. These characters are afraid they might be caught not knowing something. Some of these advertising guys-real phonies-would be better off running a gas station. You've got people going to the theater here simply because they ought...
...nearby parish in worship. As the mission's curate later told it, "Mr. Fred Knowles [a church warden] came to me at the Vicarage and asked what they were to sing on the long walk. We discussed one thing and then another and I said I would write a processional. 'You must be sharp about it,' said Mr. Knowles, 'for this is Saturday and there will shortly be no printing done.' So I set to work and knocked off the hymn in about ten minutes...
Citation: "You asserted that without a free press, there can be neither freedom nor free government. Further, that newspapers . . . must help make history and not just write...
...FAST TAX WRITE-OFF for Idaho Power Co.'s Hells Canyon Darn (TIME, April 15 et seq.) will be canceled if Congress passes bill by Oregon Congressman Charles O. Porter to wipe out all fast write-offs, except for new weapons, retroactive...
...such pilgrim-the book's narrator -is Andrew Colquhoun, a youngish Scots drifter eager to pluck the heart from Clausen's mystery, write his biography and perhaps thereby come to terms with his own restless nature. Also on the way to Clausen is an odd trio of characters: a tropical tycoon named Zuckermann, who is playing the white man's last rubber in the game of enlightened self-interest; his beautiful and enigmatic secretary. Gemma; and his top research man, a brilliant mixed-blood scientist who secretly aspires to be "a Napoleon of the black masses...