Word: reading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anxious to settle down at his stately home in Leesburg, Va., where he could be with his wife Katherine (his first wife, whom he married in 1902, died of heart disease in 1927), and where he could work in his vegetable garden, read his favorite books-about Stonewall Jackson, Benjamin Franklin and Robert E. Lee. "We have tried since the birth of our nation to promote our love of peace by a display of weakness," said he in his valedictory. "This course has failed us utterly...
...where to sneak in after college gates close at midnight. The headiest shock was Oxford's enfolding leisure. Suddenly there was time to talk all night, to sleep until noon. "Back there," mused the go-go Air Academy's Brad Hosmer, 21, "I barely had time to read a book a week." Muttered another unbound lieutenant: "I keep thinking I ought to be doing something every second...
...obligation that President and Editor Nelson P. Poynter, whose family has owned this old-gold mine for years, is happy to discharge. Indeed, the oldsters have had a healthy effect on the paper itself. "They make you think twice before generalizing," said a Times staffer : "They really read the newspaper. They not only have the time, they have the informed interest. They're a challenge." Meeting that challenge has helped rank the St. Petersburg Times among the South's most solid newspapers...
After the sweeping Conservative election victory, the Daily Mirror stridently proclaimed its continuing prominence as the favorite newspaper of Britain's young people. "Sit back, folks," it cried last week on Page One. "Why is the Mirror read by more people than any other British paper? The answer is-it's gay. Buoyant. Moves with the times . . . The accent is on youth...
...have is fun, an aged-in-the-wood humor that tickles readers and rings up billings of $1,000,000 a year from clients who give them some 20% of the gross, compared to the usual agency fee of about 15%. Says bearded Joe Weiner: "People don't read ads. They read what interests them...