Word: devoto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...series of columns reprinted from Harpers. Bernard DeVoto discusses America's noblest institution. The Cocktail Hour, and the patriot's responsibility...
...drinking martinis. And it may be all right for the man who has the entire evening free. The people who would say that the correct proportion is six or even seven to one, and the correct time 5:30 p.m. will disagree sharply here as I do, but DeVoto pays them no attention. To him, they are persons who have gone "through ignorance or unfortunate upbringing, not wickedness...
...winnowed out of a Pulitzer-prize history by Bernard DeVoto, the story tamely recalls 1950'S Broken Arrow, without its surprise or suspense. Trapper Gable marries a proud Indian maiden (Maria Elena Marques) so he can use her to ease his way into the beaver-rich bailiwick of her grandfather, a Blackfoot chief (played by well-disguised Oldtimer Jack Holt). On the trail, he learns to love and respect her. Their marriage wins the blessing of the Blackfoot ruler and gives them a son. But when one of Gable's men kills the old chief to satisfy...
...Lutheran theologian, he went to Harvard, where he studied writing under Critic Bernard DeVoto ("Cut out those adjectives"), became president of the Crimson, got a degree in History and Literature. Fuerbringer went back home to a reporter's job on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, a practical journalism school which carried in its masthead Joseph Pulitzer's injunction: "Never be satisfied with merely printing news." There he heard the exhortations of a demanding city editor on how to get a story ("Don't come back until you've got it") and the need for accuracy ("When...
...learning many practical things here. On the extracurricular side I now know how to start an old car on a cold morning, how to mix a martini a la Benny DeVoto, and how to tell a dirty story without giving offense...