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Last week chunky little Sol Hurok, America's leading independent salesman of culture, published his memoirs (Impresario; Random House, $3). The press-agent (Ruth Goode) who ghosted the book makes Hurok out a kind of warmhearted mother superior to a gang of temperamental darlings. But the dollar sign keeps peeping through the mother superior's habit. Sol Hurok is an expert at devising ways to make culture...
Each class has two instructors. Explains Barden: "We want teachers to be like a couple of synchronized spotlights. First one asks something, then the other chimes in, keeping things going. You gang up on one guy, firing questions at him as fast as you can. . . . Some people don't come well-prepared, but by the time the two-hour discussion is over, they wish to hell they...
Where cargoes and crews were available, loading and unloading were often slowed down by featherbedding practices of the stevedores of the International Longshoremen's Association, A.F.L. One shipowner estimated that the average loading rate had dropped from 30 to 13 tons per gang per hour...
...Some etymologists trace the term to another Irishman named Hooley, whose gang became known as the Hooley-gang. Still others connect it vaguely with a notorious thug named Muldoon whose name spelled backwards reads "noodlum"; hence hoodlum and hooligan...
Hodding Carter still remembers two disturbing things from his Louisiana boyhood. He was only six when he saw a yelping gang of white boys chasing a Negro kid. Several years later, he came upon the pendant body of a lynch victim. Those violent pictures never faded from his mind. Last week, for flaying racism wherever he found it, Editor Hodding Carter, 39, of the Greenville, Miss. Delta Democrat Times, won the 1945 Pulitzer Prize ($500)* for distinguished editorial writing. Especially cited: his plea for fairness to returning Nisei soldiers...