Word: afternoon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unfailingly "pleasant and easygoing." Clients who visit him in his office are sometimes surprised to find him dressed in a bathrobe or riding britches, conducting an imaginary orchestra as a hi-fi system plays a favorite Verdi opera. He is also a Shakespeare buff who once spent an afternoon trading quotes from the Bard with Marlon Brando as the two worked out a custody settlement over Brando's child...
...Bulletin thus joined a small but growing number of "all-day" papers that produce both morning and afternoon editions. Only two dozen of the nation's 1,753 dailies publish all day, and most are in relatively small, one-paper cities. But in the past couple of years some big-city afternoon papers have added morning editions: the Detroit News (circ. 634,000), Dallas Times Herald (251,000), and Oakland Tribune (164,000). Other papers are considering the move, among them the financially beset Washington Star (329,000), which has renegotiated its union contracts as part of a long...
More Americans still read afternoon rather than morning papers; indeed, afternoon papers account for about 57% of total daily circulation. For the past few years, however, city P.M.s have been generally losing circulation while many A.M.s have been gaining. Publishers attribute this attrition to the scourges of the afternoon: heightened competition from television news and suburban dailies, traffic jams that make midday delivery difficult, and readers' morning habits. Says Dallas Times Herald Publisher Lee Guittar: "People are acclimated to having their newspaper with their morning coffee...
...through East Cambridge with a camera, looking for urban landscapes and trying to feel like an artist. But after a couple of hours I had found nothing that would get me into the Museum of Modern Art and snow clouds were soaking up what was left of the late afternoon light. I decided to head home...
Harvard phones were dead from 2:55 to 3:15 p.m. yesterday, but Edward DiChicco, a Cambridge telephone service representative, said troubles lasted much longer in other parts of the city. "We started getting calls early in the afternoon, and they continued through four o'clock," DiChicco said...