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...hiring & firing has shown spotty judgment. A good man like Columnist Franklin P. Adams was let go; Walter Lippmann was brought in; so was Lucius Beebe, with his ormolu prose. In the days of Alva Johnston and of Stanley Walker, the Trib's city coverage was the sprightliest in town...
Greater University. Largely because he has fought so ardently for his conception of freedom, Frank Graham has attracted to Chapel Hill one of the sprightliest, ablest faculties in the U.S., men of the caliber of Sociologist Howard Odum, Mathematician and Biographer Archibald Henderson, Playwright Paul Green. And Dr. Frank has nourished such educational plants as Albert Coates's Institute of Government (which each year trains scores of North Carolina sheriffs, tax collectors, and small fry officials); the Playmakers and the Department of Dramatic Art; a drama school rivaling Yale's and Carnegie Tech's; an outstanding university...
...afternoon dailies with Wall Street followings are the World-Telegram and the Sun. The World-Telegram's Ralph Hendershot writes a boxed feature which is syndicated to about a dozen other Scripps-Howard papers. The Sun's Carlton Adamson Shively has established himself as the sprightliest financial columnist...
...monolog with an imaginary person whom she addresses as "Mr. Cosgrove," when she gives herself parlor airs as a rival of her "new mother" for her father's attention, when she cheats a contemporary out of a pair of roller skates, she further validates her growing place as the sprightliest cinema prodigy since Jackie Coogan. Good shot: Gary Cooper reading What Every Young Mother Should Know...
Young Celadon, the sprightliest of the swains...