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This newspaper ad, printed a month ago in the New York World-Telegram and Sun, and paid for out of the pockets of a Harlem school staff, touched it off. The teachers begged for a cleanup of their rat-and cockroach-infested building, protesting against "sagging walls, unsanitary toilets, leaking roof, refrigerator temperatures in the winter and oven-like sweltering during spring." By last week that appeared to be a rough description of many New York City schools, and four sets of investigators were looking into far-reaching corruption in the most colossal, colossally troubled school system in the nation...
...completed only "at the cost of increasing the power of the tyrant." Mississippi's Representative John Bell Williams introduced a bill that would make the proposed swap a federal offense, punishable by $5,000 fine, three years in prison. Wrote an indignant reader of the New York World-Telegram and Sun: "I have been sick to my stomach with shame...
...invariably tries to browbeat the press, claims he once persuaded the New York World-Telegram to delete an unfavorable section from a review. Critics, with the rarest of exceptions, he denounces as uncreative "hacks." Merrick particularly professes to despise Walter Kerr of the New York Herald Tribune (Kerr reacts, says Merrick, only when his wife Jean nudges him), John McCarten of The New Yorker (whom he banned from his last opening), Louis Kronenberger of TIME, and the New York Times's Howard Taubman-who, says Merrick grinning at his own maliciousness, "needs vocational guidance." Two weeks ago, he tried...
...corner office high above Manhattan's Park Avenue, Scripps-Howard's Roy Wilson Howard riffled through a stack of well-wishing telegrams: at 77 he had just announced that he was retiring after 33 years as editor of the New York World-Telegram and Sun, divesting himself of all executive responsibility and authority. Said Roy Howard, who for several years had been removing himself from management of the Scripps-Howard chain, as he looked back on more than 60 years in journalism: "Newspapers, I like to think, are the common denominator of popular thinking. In the old days...
...priest is also a man, his human appetites are apt to get in the way of his vocation. Graham Greene used this simple fact of religious life with searing effect in The Power and the Glory. In his second novel, Author William Michelfelder, onetime reporter on the New York World-Telegram and Sun, cannot stand comparison with his master, but he tries to outdo him in compassion. Greene's whisky-drinking, fornicating priest in revolution-torn Mexico could only try to make amends by persisting in God's work at the risk of his life. Father Bowles...