Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...making paper flowers for Dennison & Co. in New York; she has seen much of the world (two large exceptions: South America, Russia). She began her career as $20-a-week editorial assistant on the Condé Nast publications, and rose in three years to become managing editor of Vanity Fair. She is married to Henry R. Luce, editor of TIME, LIFE and FORTUNE; she has a daughter, Ann Brokaw, 18, by her first marriage to Socialite George T. Brokaw; she has a cool certainty of poise that tongue-ties men; she likes chocolate milkshakes, and often writes...
...buffen, double-turreted, back-acting submarine war junk. . . . She is about the shape of a sweet potato that has burst in the boiling. She draws 14 feet of mud forward, and 16 ft. 6 in. of slime aft, and has three feet of discolored water over the maindeck in fair weather. . . . All the clinkers, ashes, buckets, shovels, etc. and an occasional sleepy coal passer are sucked up the flue and blown thousands of miles...
...Russians had joined in the assault. and their effect seemed already considerable. Germany announced that its defenses had knocked down 130 Russian planes in a raid on Berlin. Moscow gibed at the statement as fantastic (which it was) but added that the figure was a fair estimate of the number of planes in the raid...
...happy childhood. As a first novel (winner of the Avery Hopwood Award) it is mature and thoughtful, except in technique. In it drinks are always "refreshing," blouses are always "dainty." The story accumulates as undramatically as polyps on a coral reef, but in the end it makes a pretty fair shipwreck...
...feel it unfortunate that you have printed only an article by Mr. Clay, on the International Student Conference in Washington. It seems to me that his viewpoint was too one-sided to give your readers a fair idea of the Conference...