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...master of the novel and his characters have a foursquare, surface rightness rather than depth. He can also use some unashamed, sugary, overripe prose: "And it came on toward night, and the sun was down and the fire of its setting dead, and the coyotes were beginning to yip on the hills and the stars to light up, and there was the good smell of aspen smoke in his nose." But most readers will be thankful for a fictional fidelity to time & place that is wholly exceptional among Guthrie's competitors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: On to Oregon | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

Although the Reds yip that Coca-Cola has landed an "army of workers," shiploads of machinery and trucks, Coca-Cola has only ten Americans on its Italian staff (Italian employees run into the thousands). The company uses Italian equipment in making the drink (as in the U.S., Coca-Cola restricts itself to the sale of syrup, leaving the more profitable bottling operation to local businessmen), employs Italian printers for advertising and uses Italian trucks for distribution. Isotta Fraschini has just produced a truck which the company thinks is better-looking than the American design, and which it plans to export...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Italian Invasion | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

...milestone: on Dec. 13, Pearson's 51st birthday, the Merry-Go-Round will start its 17th year. Under a newly signed contract, Pearson can be pretty sure of four more years as the world's second-best-paid newsman, and its second-most-widely-syndicated columnist. (The yip-yippity-yip of his frenetic friend Walter Winchell has 200 more outlets, and pays about $140,000 a year better.) His fellow journalists measure Pearson by a different yardstick. In 1944 Washington correspondents rated him at the top of the list in national influence. But in terms of "reliability, fairness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Querulous Quaker | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...Clifford, who overrode the objections of her husband and became a Chautauqua circuit storyteller. One of her favorite numbers: the story of Persian Prince Sticky-sticky-stombo-no-so-rombo-hody-body-bosco-ica-non-nun-a -non-combo-tombo-rombo, who drowned in a well, wherefore his brother Yip became king...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Little Accident | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

...timers" number, featuring some grizzled, winning atavists from World War I's Yip Yip and climaxing in sad-face Patriot Irving Berlin's almost voiceless, endearing rendition of O How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Aug. 16, 1943 | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

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