Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grab the headlines and stir dissension. Leaving the Senate floor that afternoon, McCarthy Lawyer Edward Williams was asked by a newsman: "Ed, your boy sure isn't trying to win friends and influence people, is he?" Replied Williams, wearily: "That's one book Joe didn't write...
Slush & Slime. All week long pro-McCarthy Senators, e.g., Illinois' Everett Dirksen and New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, worked in the back rooms, trying to write a compromise resolution which would slap Joe's wrist but stop short of censure. Helping them was California's Senator William Knowland, who seems to think that his majority-leadership post makes him a Fanny Fixit, obliged to rush to the aid of all Republicans, regardless of what those Republicans may stand...
...Advocate has begun to write of life again, and not of depravity. It effects are arrived at not by obscenity or hopeless complexity, but by simplicity of stle and reliance on the basic figures of speech. Its prose writers in this issue are interested in vitality, not disease. And if the poets talk of death, it is not despairingly, but philosophically. With this issue the Advocate has defined the undergraduate literary magazine. It will be interesting to see if it forgets the definition...
Until last week no write-in candidate had ever been elected to the U.S. Congress. Last week's write-in winner: J. (for James) Strom Thurmond, 51, whom South Carolina sent to the Senate seat of the late Burnet R. Maybank...
...dirt: a young girl (Peggy Ann Garner) comes to New York on the make to visit her uncle (Otto Kruger), and meets a famous Broadway producer (Van Heflin). Since Heflin's wife (Gene Tierney) is out of town, he rather indiscreetly lets the girl use their apartment to write in while he is at work. The day his wife gets home, they find the girl strung up in the bedroom and a suicide note on the typewriter table...