Word: wrote
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...this, capital newsmen began hearing of an H-bomb among letters which the President had written last summer to Political Columnist Frank Kent of the Baltimore Sun-a letter so scorching that Harry Truman regretted it almost immediately, and wrote again, apologetically asking Kent to destroy it. Kent returned it instead, got a note of profuse thanks for the gesture...
Last week Witness Peter Planiseck testified that he once saw Ilse order a prisoner to strip so she could see his tattoos; then she wrote down the prisoner's number. That night he was executed...
...Curtis decided to enlighten his readers as he has before on cancer quacks, police and psychology. All have brought a flood of mail from medical men. The letter that Curtis prizes most came from Dr. Charles S. Cameron, medical and scientific director of the American Cancer Society Inc. Wrote Dr. Cameron: "May I compliment you on the splendid service you are rendering the public...
...Wrote Low: "Under the pressure of the big-time operators, football [is] becoming more savage, vicious and dangerous each season . . . leading to a brutalization of players and spectators alike." As a prime example of capitalist brutality at work, Low recalled the cheer of his own Brooklyn high school (Brooklyn Technical): "Ram 'em, bam 'em, rock 'em, sock 'em, hit 'em hard, hit 'em low, c'mon Tech...
Last week Nat Low collided with a member of his own backfield. In a letter to Peoples World, Sports Editor Lester Rodney of Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker wrote: ". . . My friend Nat Low has in a sectarian moment gone hogwild on football ... By and large . . . it's still a fine game . . . Nat is actually exceedingly silly when he takes the high-school chants about rocking 'em and socking 'em and reads a process of blood-seeking brutalization into...