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...gloom that hung over Cincinnati last week as the World Series ended in five games hung just as thickly over a Boston executive suite. The annual radio and television World Series sponsorship costs the Gillette Co., the world's largest razor-blade manufacturer, a flat $3,000,000, whether the series goes four or seven games. "You root for anyone you want for the first game,'' is a Gillette axiom. "After that, you root for the underdog so that Gillette can get its full seven games worth of advertising...
Though the proof is not always in the perusing, the independent Toledo Blade and the arch-Republican Los Angeles Times make similar claims to fame. The Blade, according to its masthead, is ONE OF AMERICA'S GREAT NEWSPAPERS. The L.A. Times reaches further, dubs itself ONE OF THE WORLD'S GREAT NEWSPAPERS. The World's Greatest Newspaper? By decree of the late Colonel Bertie McCormick, that title was taken by his own Chicago Daily Tribune in 1911. As a staffer shrugged last week, "We can hardly back down...
...enigmatic samples of U.S. newspaper wisdom comes from Mark 4:28 and runs above the Christian Science Monitor's lucid editorial page. It was adopted at the behest of Founder Mary Baker Eddy, who prescribed the original quote from the King James Version of the Bible: "First the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear." Staving off endless wisecracks, a resourceful editor substituted the verse as it appears in the American Standard Version, in time for the first issue in November 1908. The new translation carried by the Monitor shucked the corn, uses grain...
...champ go soft. Like the Sugarman rubber-kneed against Fender. Like Papa not making it to those trees in time. Like Mickey Spillane coming back with his first book in eight years: "I let him get close enough to kiss me off with his eyes, took the blade out of his fingers so fast he never knew I had it until I raked him hard over the ribs where the blood could make a mess for everybody to see. When I hit him his teeth powdered and he fell against Benny-from-Brooklyn and lay there sucking...
...surprisingly agile buck and wing and lead his combo (trombone, clarinet, drums, bass, piano, trumpet) into a searing chorus of Down by the Riverside. Snarling, growling, shivering into a remarkably clean vibrato or soaring through long, liquid phrases, the trumpet slices through the group's sound like a blade...