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...diminutive right fielder, is Exeter's leadoff man. A difficult target at the plate, he reaches base often. His speed afoot makes him a base-stealing threat...
...must not forget," Dean Acheson told the American Society of Newspaper Editors, "that it is we, the American people, who have been picked out as the principal target of the Soviet Communists." But though he thought the situation serious, he did not see war in sight...
Often his on-the-target fire has been joined by salvos from able Russian Analyst David J. Dallin and from such disillusioned ex-Communists or onetime sympathizers as Max Eastman, Louis Fischer, Granville Hicks and the late General Walter Krivitsky. While the anti-Communist crusade is the most important New Leader job, it is not the only one. It also aims to present "a variety of opinions consistent with our democratic policy." As a result, its pages have glittered with articles by such big names as Philosophers John Dewey and Bertrand Russell, Novelists George Orwell and Arthur Koestler, Poet Carl...
...which reported a net of $64,400,000 (up 20% from the same period of 1949). When A.T. & T. held its annual stockholders' meeting in Manhattan a few days later, one stockholder said he was worried lest the good earnings and the $9 dividend rate become a target for government regulatory bodies. Why didn't A.T. & T. split its stock three for one, he asked, and thus change the dividend to $3 a share...
...Manhattan tabloid PM, now folded, Field launched the morning Chicago Sun as a full-sized newspaper in December 1941. He was gunning for Bertie McCormick's entrenched and ably edited Chicago Tribune. But in the next six years, the Sun never quite got its sights on the target and steadily lost money. In July 1947, with his major adversary still as potent as ever, Field took on two more. For $5,339,000, he bought the afternoon Times, a peppy, popular and moneymaking tabloid competing with John S. Knight's Daily News and Hearst's Herald-American...