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...more-than-filial admiration of Pulitzer Sr. and all he stood for. Each year, on the anniversary of the elder Pulitzer's death, presses stop and lights go out for one minute. Busts of the Hungarian immigrant boy who became one of journalism's greats adorn the P-D building. And the platform that Pulitzer Sr. wrote is repeated each day atop the editorial page: "Always fight demagogues of all parties . . . never be satisfied with merely printing news . .. . never be afraid to attack wrong, whether by predatory plutocracy or predatory poverty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Never Be Afraid | 3/26/1945 | See Source »

...regrets about the passing of the building were expressed, although Gerald L. K. Maslon '45, chairman of the almost published '45 Senior Album, mourned the destruction of the Holabird murals which adorn the Album offices...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Plans Destruction of Shepherd Hall by First of April | 3/9/1945 | See Source »

...hours of handsome, earnest inadequacy, which comes to life only by fits & starts-most memorably in the performances of Hume Cronyn, Agnes Moorhead, Steve Geray. A free use of stream-of-consciousness dialogue and of comment by the ghost of one of the escapers, to point the moral and adorn the tale, succeeds only in diluting both, far more regrettably than the old came-the-dawn subtitles used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 18, 1944 | 9/18/1944 | See Source »

...crucifix, a Spanish flag, and a Spanish poem adorn the walls of a stark, windowless room in Buenos Aires. Translated, the poem reads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Hispanidad v. Pan America | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

Monday morning will find our Officer Candidates and their families and friends in Potter Auditorium for the final meeting of the class. Long coveted gold bars will adorn the shoulders of the newly-made Second Lieutenants after the ceremony of graduation is completed. Class 7-43 is to be honored by the presence of Colonel Byron E. Gates, Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Management Control, Army Air Forces, and possible other representatives from Headquarters Army Air Forces...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRADUATION PLANS SET, CEREMONY IS MONDAY | 4/9/1943 | See Source »

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