Word: bart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Council's program is under the joint direction of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Boston Museum of science. Among the members of the governing board of the new council in Bart J. Box, professor of Astronomy and associate director of the Harvard Museum. Other members include professors from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brown...
...reason little "Mister Bart" sells more daily papers than anybody else in Britain (except Beaverbrook's Daily Express) is that his political acumen has made the independent Mirror the country's most sensitive barometer of the political weather. Sometimes it also helps to make the weather. A week before the 1945 election, the Mirror demanded that Britain "turn the Tories out." Then the paper supported Labor. Last July, Mister Bart spotted storm clouds ahead, for Labor and the Mirror cried: "Attlee must...
Something for Everybody. The shopgirls and workmen who comprise most of the Mirror's audience get more than politics for their British penny. Says Mister Bart: "There's something for nearly everybody." The somethings rarely include straight news. The accent is on short, spicy stories on crime, tragedy and sex, eye-catching headlines (HE DIED AS THEY DANCED UNDER THE STARS), lively photographs, a caustic daily column by "Cassandra" (William Connor), and comics, ranging from the Mirror's own stripteasing Jane (TIME, Aug. 25) to action-packed Buck Ryan...
Clothes for Jane. Mister Bart joined the Mirror shortly after the late Lord Northcliffe founded it in 1903; Northcliffe turned the paper over to his brother, the late Lord Rothermere, who moved out in 1931. Who now owns a controlling interest in the Mirror is Fleet Street's biggest mystery. But the board of directors and thousands of stockholders are quite satisfied to let Bartholomew, chairman of the Mirror and Pictorial, run both papers as long as they make fat profits (net for their last fiscal years: ?535,111). Now 64, he has run the Mirror since 1931, built...
...find out what his readers want, Mister Bart occasionally does a bit of pub-crawling. This has resulted in a New Look for Jane. After enduring several cold winters in bra and panties (or less), she has been more modestly clad; Bartholomew, impressed by the Mirror's political weathermaking, thinks her old near-nudeness "no longer seems right in a paper which people are taking seriously...