Word: things
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Protestant clergymen and 41% of their Roman Catholic brethren feel, according to a recent poll, that undertakers exploit bereaved families at least part of the time. The grief-stricken, notes Psychology of Funeral Service, "are less capable of reasoning than under normal conditions . . . They want to do the accepted thing . . ." And some people's idea of the accepted thing can run as high as a $19,000 casket with "Ever-Seal air, watertight construction, and Ever-Rite adjustable bed, all in a zestful champagne finish, but a semi-tailored interior of gold tone, savoy crepe...
...told that his favorite uncle had committed suicide. "Bad news I don't want to hear on the phone," he says, "and good news I don't need any more." Lerner, on the other hand, loves and needs the horn; according to his partner, the first thing he does in the morning is to reach yawningly for the phone and pick it up. "Half the time, he doesn't even know who he's going to call...
...transplanted Canadian, Lord Beaverbrook, wants to exhort ("I run the paper purely for the purpose of making propaganda," Press Lord Beaverbrook once said). Thomson expects to earn almost $20 million this year on his $130 million empire. This prospect delights him. "A sound financial front is the most important thing in a newspaper," he said last week. "Why else would you be in the news business? Either it's because you're mad at somebody, or the way things are being handled. Or else you want to preach. The only other reason is that it's business...
...wooing Britain's rising mid dle class. He has added a culture-packed Saturday supplement to several of his dailies, beefed up news columns, hired cor respondents on the Continent to expand foreign coverage, "Looking All the Time." "Actually," said one Thomson employee last week, "the only conservative thing about Thom son is his money." Thomson encourages this view. He tells risque stories at stuffy editorial conferences, invites everyone to call him Roy, and rides the London underground more often than his blue Cadillac or Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud. Thom son's editors have full rein...
...bedside; her one friend is a boozy Cambridge expatriate who must, for his own reasons, falsify what "home" is like. Society at the local dorp is of inconceivable tedium, and only the natives in their kraals suggest that life lived on its own terms may be a good thing. When Daphne finally escapes to her never-never land, Author Spark moves to her fictional kill like a Mau Mau houseboy...