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...Himself, one could see the difference in attitude between the old Brattle the company and those who were there for this play alone. Zero Mostel, a Broadway and Holly wood comedian, was the featured performer, and he was enthusiastic about the theatre and angered that it had never gotten outside financial support...
...Government must be constituted ... of such incorruptible character that subversion cannot creep in ... And if there be an erring man or woman, who having gotten into . . . Government, shows the signs of disloyalty, we have ample, just and American methods of getting rid of them. We have to destroy the reputation of no innocent man. We can do it and must do it promptly, but in the American...
Near the end of the train was a club car in which all the pols who had gotten aboard in Pittsfield were clustered...
Until last week, price ceiling violators have usually gotten away with light taps on the wrist in court. Last week OPS clubbed a violator on the head. It fined New York's Barium Steel Corp. and two subsidiaries, Central Iron & Steel and Phoenix Iron & Steel, a whacking $1,011,-123.63. It was by far the biggest OPS fine yet levied. It was also another black eye for Central Iron & Steel whose activities had figured in Washington's mink-coat scandal a year and a half...
...successful adman nowadays must "get into the field"-even if it is only on a "one-man survey"-to "check the trade" and get an "on-the-ground approach" to the "big picture." That means, of course, both "sales-wise" and "production-wise." Then, having gotten a "fillin" (which is known in advertising circles as letting an outside dope in on the inside dope), he will be all set to "finalize his thinking" and "explode the market...