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Flushed by their cordial reception at the local level, some giveaways have plunged all the way into fulltime newspapering. In Omaha four shopping guides published by David Blacker converted to paid newspaper weeklies beginning in 1958. To Slacker's satisfaction, all but 20,000 of his 60,000 readers submitted to a levy of a nickel; to lis greater satisfaction, all but a handful of those stayed aboard last month when he raised the price to a dime. Although Blacker's papers now carry syndicated columnists, his news approach has remained steadfastly local...
PRESCOTT'S HISTORIES edited by Irwin R. Blacker. 568 pages. Viking...
Prescott is often quoted today, but seldom, if ever, read. To put him back into circulation, Historian Irwin Blacker has soldered together generous excerpts from Prescott's four books-Ferdinand and Isabella, The Conquest of Mexico, The Conquest of Peru and Philip II. Prescott may have had no first-hand experience of Spain, but he had what was perhaps better-good friends in the U.S. diplomatic service. He used them to get access to documents in Madrid that no historian had seen before. The scaffolding of fact upon which Prescott constructed his books was so solid that more than...
...type is technically the same size as the old and has the same space between lines, but because of its design it appears to be bigger. It is blacker than Old Style and takes slightly more space (36 characters to a line instead of 40). To complement the new body type, we have changed the type used for headlines and captions. Picture captions, for example, were previously in Old Style and will now be in Spartan Medium. As in the past, some special text pieces, notably those we call "boxes," will frequently be printed in type that varies slightly from...
Rarely has so much abuse from so many intelligent people been heaped on a political candidate with so negligible an effect as in this Massachusetts Senatorial race. Amid the emotionalism of the campaign, Ted Kennedy has turned blacker and blacker in the eyes of his detractors. He is constantly slurred as a negative force, a shadow which cannot be hit. Actually, the meteoric rise of Ted Kennedy is a positive force attributable to personal dynamism, political genius, effective organization and popular policies. He is certainly helped by a magic name and an opposition which has proved unable to exploit...