Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Idaho: Eisenhower easily. Old Guard Senator Herman Welker is challenged by Democrat Frank Church - but Church is hurt, and is likely to be beaten, by write-in competition from left-wing Democrat Glen Taylor, beaten in the primary but still a threat to some 5,000 Church votes...
...volume of mail that comes in to a magazine or a newspaper is no index of anything except that you happen to attract a lot of idiots, because most people that write letters to newspapers are fools...
...rascally old Lake poet!" Some see him as an overelaborate, rather cute stylist; others brush aside what they feel are merely trappings and hail Lamb as one of the kindest, most generous men that ever lived. Editor Matthews manages to include all these Lambs in his selection and to write what is probably the truest, briefest epitaph: "His friends loved him: his friends still...
...this disarmingly candid appeal, readers should be warned not to rush to the flamboyant Armenian's fiscal relief unless they are incurable addicts of the wacky, the whimsical and the whopperish. Only in Saroyan, perhaps, could one meet the vice president of a cemetery company who yearns to write ad copy like "Inter here. A lot for your money." Or the off-key executive who plays Cupid by posting a lonely young man in an empty cubbyhole in the piano warehouse with no duties except to wait for the right girl to come along. She does. Saroyan alternates...
...freshmen wear little hats, and they write on the sidewalks, and they cheer at football games...