Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...while, last fall, I had it all straight in my head that an egghead was no Republican, and vice versa. Now you write up [Aug. 17] this fellow [Massachusetts' Governor] Herter, who sounds like a right guy to me, and if ever I heard an egghead described, to the life, it's Herter. The fellow reads books, understands art, thinks and is a Republican...
Hope. All the while, husband & wife wrote to each other-more than 400 letters. "The future looked so black," he said, "it was awfully hard to write. It was useless to discuss politics. We fell back upon endless analyses of books that Clara was reading-Shakespeare, Dickens, Jack London." When they could afford it, they telephoned, and Alf noticed that Clara's isolation led her to speak in dated British slang, with such expressions as "ripping" and "top-hole." Alf sent Clara dresses and a fur coat; he sent Nicky, the seven-year-old son he had never seen...
...Vigo, where the boy led a catch-as-catch-can existence begging and running errands, had filled his ear with wondrous tales of their homeland. Argentine immigration authorities were not so encouraging, planned to send El Galleguito back to Spain. But a few weeks ago somebody helped him write a letter to President Juan Perón. "I do not want to return to Spain," the letter said, "and I know you will not fail me. Is this not the country where children are the only privileged ones...
...insoluble riddles were merely daily routine for Correspondent Gilmore during the twelve years he covered Moscow for the A.P. Now back in the U.S., with his Russian ex-ballerina wife and their two children, 46-year-old Eddy Gilmore last week told some of the stories he could not write in Russia...
...they cabled their censored dispatches. If they strayed a single word from the censored text, the telephone line always went abruptly dead. To warn deskmen in A.P.'s London bureau, Gilmore sometimes wrote at the end of a dispatch, "Please give this a careful reading; I had to write it in a hurry," which they knew meant "The censor's been hacking at this one; watch it closely...