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...harder to read and make the reader mad enough to turn his attention to television or a typographically attractive magazine . . . Nine out of ten papers are crowded, lack eye-appeal, crowd too much in too little . . . What is the business doing about color, or is it going to abandon that great area of popular appeal entirely to the magazines and television...
People's Choice. In Duluth, Vincent Murphy sadly announced that he would have to abandon his campaign for election to the mayor's office after he was sentenced to 90 days in the workhouse for nonsupport...
...lifeline, and a war there could not be localized-because 'Britain would enter "it. "He wanted'-to as sure them that the Western alliance can not be splintered, and to suggest that the true test of Soviet eagerness for coexistence would be its willingness to abandon subversion abroad. He had filled much of K. & B.'s schedule with opportunity for such cozy seminars. Though they would also have a chance to see the ballet, a few old castles and a factory or two. great care was being taken that their audience with the Queen should...
...however, professed a complete lack of interest in the New York situation. He insisted solemnly that "in my opinion it was an honest election." He also made it clear that the shelving of the I.L.A. loan did not mean that tough, power-hungry Jimmy Hoffa would be forced to abandon his idea of a "mutual aid pact"-committing the Teamsters and the discredited Longshoremen to joint organizational drives and joint pressure on employers...
Divided Mind. Prague he found beautiful but "empty not only of traffic but also of moral animation." In Moscow the varied and enthusiastic ballet audiences taught him "to forever abandon that stereotype of the Communist Russian which is too prevalent in American thinking." But the Americans found some troublesome stereotypes in Russian thinking. The Russians translated the National Council's "Policy and Strategy Committee" as "Politics and War Committee," and "it took several minutes of discussion to make clear that we really did believe in a true separation of church and state...