Word: almanacers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...record time of 5 hours and 16 minutes. It landed in Paris, roared on to Cairo and Karachi, with Reynolds passing out pens at all stops. The weather information was sketchy; at Calcutta the best an airport employee could tell them about prevailing winds came from an almanac...
...make the modern mass-circulation daily an attractive grab-bag, with prizes to please either sex and every taste. Critics might object that newspapers should be newspapers, and censure anything else in them as a regrettable defection from duty. But Patterson recognized that readers wanted something that was part almanac, shopping guide, magazine and variety show as well as news bulletin board. Like U.S. radio, the press dealt in news, entertainment and commercials; the amount of each might differ, but the ingredients were the same. Patterson's mixture called for health hints and horoscopes, patterns and etiquette, advice...
...book about a Third Avenue bar [Third Avenue, New York; Little, Brown; $2]. This is close, but no cigar; I understand that in reality, my failure to report three times weekly in Tim Costello's Social Register Saloon on Third Avenue, a grogshop sometimes known as the Almanac de Gotha Bar & Grill, was one cause of my dismissal...
...observe as a footnote, in your . . . issue of Sept. 30, the statement that the Encyclopedia Britannica is the world's oldest continuing publication. This leads me to believe that you have inside information in regard to the discontinuing of the Almanac de Gotha which first appeared in 1764 and of the Annual Register, the first volume of which bears the date...
...TIME, with no inside information on Joseph Stalin's publishing plans (his troops seized the German Almanac's files last February), slipped on the British Register; it is still going strong, and is senior to the Encyclopedia Britannica by ten years...