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...have quoted me as saying that I did not return to my old job as chief editorial writer on the New York Daily Mirror because I decided not to "waste time trying to influence people who move their lips when they read" [TIME...
That's hoisting a man on his own wisecrack, and properly. But I would like to straighten the quote and explain the origin. When the late, and I believe great newspaperman, Arthur Brisbane, took over the Mirror to haul it out of the red ... I was his pupil and aide. He once wrote me something he said someone had told him. That's as far as I can trace the genealogy of the quote; but it still makes pretty good advice for a young newspaperman or a young politician...
Tall, dark & handsome Lieut. Colonel John Reagan ("Tex") McCrary, 35 and out of the A.A.F., had to decide a typical veteran's problem: did he want his old job back? His old job was chief editorial writer for Hearst's tabloid New York Mirror. He asked himself a loaded question: "Why waste your time trying to in fluence people who move their lips when they read?" That...
After Due Reflection. In Panama City, Fla., M. H. Pitts put a mirror in front of his solitary pig, happily watched it eat like a hog to keep up with its double...
...powerful and immensely influential abstractions are well represented by some eight oils; this reviewer particularly liked the striking "Still Life on a Table," the sensuous and flowing "The Mirror," and the austere, powerful "Bather Standing...