Word: dispatching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first assignments for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 1923, Cub Reporter Milburn Peter Akers followed a sack of potatoes from farmer to housewife to find out why they were so expensive. He handed in a story that had plenty of potatoes but no meat. He had failed to question critically each middleman's excuse for jacking up the price. When the city editor read the piece, he tore it to shreds and bellowed: "You let everybody impose on your credulity!" "On the way back to my desk," recalls Akers, "I looked up credulity in the dictionary...
...Columbus. A similar ban at Ohio State University, enacted by the school's trustees in 1951 under continual prodding by the conservative Columbus Dispatch, is under increasing fire from other Ohio newspapers and the university faculty. Some 300 students protested the rule in April through picketing and sit-in demonstrations. More than 400 teachers have signed petitions calling for its repeal...
...Real Raid. Simon is a constant and shrewd reader of profit and loss statements. He looks for companies with broad stock ownership, shares undervalued in relation to book values, sluggish management and sickly earnings. If he finds a likely case, he may dispatch aides to probe the situation deeper, use his contacts in Wall Street to find out why things are not better than they are. Eventually Simon may make a visit to the company himself?he took eight trips to West Virginia in the course of buying into Wheeling Steel?but his trips are mainly for general impressions rather...
...just one more Yul Brynner movie. In detail, it is something quite different: a wildly funny satire. Brynner's part is taken by the Rao Jagnabad, a glitteringly bejeweled, savagely personable hunter-princeling known as the Nine-Tiger Man. When the Sepoy Mutiny erupts in Delhi, the English dispatch their women to the Rao's palace, confident that they will be out of harm's way. The Rao briskly institutes a private mutiny of his own. He transforms the matrons into concubines, and the proper Victorians are soon fighting to embrace a fate worse than death...
That embarrassment is easily trebled as I marvel at the clarity, the wit, the gay dispatch with which critics have flayed the hide off poor Norman Mailer (who cares so terribly much what they think--even the ones he most despises) and left him in paunchy, shivering nakedness, his eyes to the ground, his hands over his genitals, like some pugnacious locker-room bull artist exposed as a virgin in front of the whole damn team...