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...ranging from buttons to bureaus. The ladies who put the show together were mostly grandmothers, but they smilingly shifted furniture that would have given a stevedore pause. As each unveiled her best discoveries, the others clustered like birds. A Civil War soldier's shaving kit, with slide-out mirror, was admired for its ingenuity. Six people spread out a patchwork quilt, which some country lady had made from her husband's neckties a century ago, and debated the name of the pattern. Said the oldest hand decisively, "Steps to the White House." Price of the quilt, which must...
...championing of Senator McCarthy and the denunciation of the Boston Public Library for housing Russian literature); Detroit Free Press (which at the end of the period said it was "proud of its long record of unbiased coverage of the news"); Indianapolis Star; Los Angeles Times; New York Daily Mirror; New York Daily News (whose president said a survey of bias would "do more harm than good"); San Francisco Chronicle (which claimed no bias in campaign coverage...
...pulled out many things: crumbling papers with writing in Tibetan and the rare Lan Cha type of the Indie alphabet, raw silk, strips of colored cloth, a chain of silver emblems, a bronze mirror, a faded silken bag made up in the shape of a human stomach containing a bewildering collection of pieces of metal, woods, seeds and beads...
...wartime, when he ran a serviceman's gripe column in the armed-forces paper, Union Jack. So successful was the column that at war's end, when the Union Jack's editor, a bright young Fleet Streeter named Hugh Cudlipp (now editorial director for the Mirror group) returned as editor of the Pictorial, he persuaded Hubble to run the readers' service bureau for the Mirror and Pictorial. Hubble's eye for a good story soon turned the bureau into one of the papers' best news sources, and made it so popular with readers that...
...kind of sob story that most endears Hubble to readers was handed to him not long ago by a housewife who complained that her husband had not spoken to her for ten years-even though she had borne him two children in that time. A Mirror-Pictorial team whisked the couple off to a quiet country inn and spent hours pleading with the husband. The outcome was splashed across the Pictorial's back page. The finale. "Shyly, he turned to his wife and said: 'Hello, love.' Tears of joy filled her eyes. Tenderly he took her hand...