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...years he made The New Yorker a synonym for urbanity, but he himself remained a bawling, rough-cut outlander from Aspen, Colo. A catty old friend, Alexander Woollcott, once described him as looking like "a dishonest Abe Lincoln." Rumpled, wild-haired and irascible, Ross talked in an ear-splitting voice, a combination of rasp and quack. He often expressed himself in skid-row profanity, or by mere grunts or gap-toothed grins. He had the energy of a bull, and a bull-like charm. Though he often sounded as crass as a cymbal, he had an amazing sensitivity for words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: End of a New Yorker | 12/17/1951 | See Source »

...final point is that these college presidents, coaches, athletic managers of various sorts, are products of the educational system of some years ago when morality (I suppose) was more taught than it is now. What made them so dishonest that they would stoop to the corupting of the rather simple animals they used to make money for them playing basketball? James A. Walker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Who's to Blame? | 12/13/1951 | See Source »

...Innsbruck reference is, in its entirety, the opinion of one of the American delegates--and is clearly expressed as such. Nowhere do I endorse it as my own; your implication here is dishonest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Goodman Replies to Charge of 9 Students That He Is 'Small-Minded Publicity-Seeker' | 12/7/1951 | See Source »

...Dishonesty, slander, detraction and defamation of character are as truly transgressions of God's commandments when resorted to by men in political life as they are for all other men . . . One and the same standard covers stealing from the cash register and dishonest gain derived from public office. It will not do to say . . . that the latter can be excused or condoned because it occurs in the political order. One and the same standard prohibits false statements about private individuals and false statements about members of minority groups and races. It will not do ... to say that [they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Blunt Warning | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

...percent admitted they were dishonest frequently while 37 percent said it happened only "once or twice." Two-thirds to three-quarters reported they thought cheating was a bad thing. Twenty-eight percent thought academic integrity was "highly important...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poll Reveals Cribbing During Exams By Nearly Half of Cornell Students | 11/16/1951 | See Source »

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