Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most distinguished and probably its most successful corporation lawyer. Now 64. he is pudgy, softspoken, incisively gentle in conversation but savage in political combat or in a courtroom. Recto was born in southern Luzon in the province of Taya-bas (now Quezon). His father, though he could not write, was a man of some importance in his village. Recto himself, educated by the Jesuits, stood at the head of his classes at Santo Tomas law school, learned to speak and write perfect Castilian (then the mark of a cultured gentleman...
...watering his tomato plants, while his wife-his campus sweetheart-tended the flowers. Chances are that if the same person stops at the same place a few years hence he will find the same scene, for Arthur Schlesinger, with his teaching career ended, still has some books to write and some very important things to say. HERBERT S. MEYER...
Neither the chairman of the History Department nor the College dean knew of McMillan's dismissal before he showed them the letter. The board of trustees would not let him appear before it to make an appeal, nor would it let him file a formal letter of complaint. "Write your letter to the president," said the secretary of the board. "If he sees fit, he will turn it over...
...Pudding had its own troubles, but none so serious as those of the H.D.C. The organization first planned to perform one of its old shows, but existing facilities were found to be inadequate, so George Weller agreed to write a new book. The theatrical group, however, was already beginning to be plagued with union expenses. The Pudding was charged $110 after privately transporting its scenery to New York. Union labor halted the Pudding truck outside its destination, the Mecca Temple, and presented the bill for carrying the sets inside, a distance of four feet...
...letter to me, said that one of the best names in the oil industry has several reporters on each paper in a certain town on his enterprises' payroll." In Houston three reporters were employed by the scandal-ridden housing authority and paid $75 a month each to write press releases. When Isaacs was managing editor of the late St. Louis Star-Times, he put a stop to the practice of letting news photographers take wedding pictures for a fee. "The idea got around that you had to employ Mr. So-and-So to take your picture or you didn...