Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Walter Bernard, our new art director, who took on the task of redesigning TIME last February, set out to create a look of "elegant strength." Says Bernard: "We hope our readers get used to the new format quickly. Ultimately it is still background -good background for good writing and good photographs...
These modern-day Sister Carries are the stars of a new genre of soap-opera fiction that has been leapfrogging from the pages of one metropolitan daily to another. Featuring young singles and written with a local background that often includes real people in cameo roles. the serials are pure whipped cream in a paper's usual menu of views and service features. "One of the reasons we started Probity," explains Des Moines Tribune Managing Editor Drake Mabry, "was to broaden the appeal of the paper to a part of the audience we're not reaching...
...spot turns out to be a street in Brooklyn Heights overlooking New York harbor, with Manhattan as a cinemascopic background. Superman, after a hard day's work going faster than a speeding bullet and leaping tall buildings at a single bound, spots a cat caught in a tree and swoops down to the rescue. How does he swoop? How, in fact, does he fly? Ah, that is the reason for the cloaks and the daggers: the producers are terrified a photographer will follow the reporter and show Superman being held up by a 100-ft. crane and wires. Says...
Skinny Kid. Carew is fonder of the Medal of Honor given to him by his native Panama. Says he proudly: "I'm the only athlete ever to have won it." The feeling reveals something of his deep and continuing attachment to his Latin background. Although he has now lived in the U.S. longer than in Panama, he has not sought American citizenship. Asked by a reporter what it would be like to be an American folk hero, he replied with some astonishment: "I'm a Panamanian citizen. How can I be an American folk hero?" He explains...
...evade taxes or export capital illegally from foreign countries. The code also forbids bankers to accept funds that they have reason to believe were acquired by acts punishable under Swiss law, such as fraud and trafficking in narcotics. However, the code does not require the banks to investigate the background of every customer to ascertain the origin of his money...