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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Make It Look Easy. Pitchmen, happily tracing their ancestry back to the ancient Phoenician traders who once unloaded junk jewelry on Greek housewives, have not changed much in the past few thousand years. But in recent years they have moved indoors; first as department store demonstrators and then as radio salesmen. TV, however, is a pitchman's paradise: he reaches a large audience and is visible as well as vocal. "The pitchman's spiel is not as important as his hands," says 36-year-old Harold Kaye. "He sells in proportion to how skillful he is at manipulating...
...Louis, now half a dozen overweight years past his prime, was warned by Jack Dempsey last week to quit the ring. Said Dempsey: "Louis is a lot farther over the hill than I was when I hung up the gloves in 1927. He ought to quit before he gets hurt and finds a permanent address on Queer Street...
...general, those who had roasted the Administration and Secretary of State Acheson in the past simply turned up the heat. Most of the rest withheld their fire. Even some of MacArthur's severest critics eased up. Said the usually critical Des Moines Register: "We are compelled to say in fairness that the 'kicking around' which the U.N. supreme commander in Korea is now getting seems most unjust and irresponsible...
Autos were not the only items that were going up. In the past two weeks, reported the Bureau of Labor Statistics, retail food prices had jumped 2%, with fruits, vegetables and eggs (at a 30-year high) leading the way. Pig iron was up again, and so was scrap steel; half a dozen steel companies had followed U.S. Steel's lead and raised their prices by about...
...irresponsibility of the CRIMSON this past term suggests that any defense of your policies on the ground of "A Newspaper's Responsibility" is far removed from any facts in your own case. Specific serious instances of your irresponsibility where I personally know the facts...