Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moderately biased (both pro-Republican): New York World-Telegram and Sun; Philadelphia Evening Bulletin (which boasted of its fair political coverage...
...John Crosby. But in terms of his effect on which way the dial turns, he is the nation's most influential TV critic. Last week the Tulsa Tribune became the 96th newspaper (total circ. 15 million) to take his TV Key. Among other subscribers: the Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Bulletin, Baltimore Sun, Los Angeles Herald & Express, Detroit Times, New York Journal-American. A survey of viewers in Kansas City, where TV Key runs in the Star, estimated recently that a Scheuer boost could fatten a show's Trendex rating by as much as nine points...
...AFFAIRS) lasted no longer than the President's brief illness. The first sketchy reports touched off a brief, orderly selling wave: the Exchange ticker ran late, and stocks on the Dow-Jones industrial average slipped 4.91 points in an hour. But when the White House issued a reassuring bulletin, stocks turned quickly around, made up all but a 1.87-point fraction of the day's loss, then climbed steadily higher on each successive day. At week's end the average stood at 511.79, up 6.16 points to a new high for the year, and within easy range...
...Roman Catholic priests of Spain had better climb off their motor scooters, put out their cigarettes, and stay away from soccer games and bullfights. So decreed Spain's primate, Enrico Cardinal Pla y Deniel, 80, in the bulletin of the Archbishopric of Toledo. "In the middle of the giddy life of the present time," wrote the cardinal, priests should preserve the "sacerdotal sanities." This means, in Spain at least, that they should always wear their long, skirted cassocks and "in cities of importance" must add the mantle (sotana) or at least the short cape (esclavina...
...widespread but quite needless timidity with which many papers approach news involving religious controversy" was deplored by Sevellon Brown III, editor of the Providence Journal-Bulletin (combined circ. 202,819). Wrote he: "Any newspaper boss who is afraid of alienating readers or advertisers by the straightforward handling of news or the vigorous expression of editorial opinion when religious viewpoints impinge upon public affairs is seeing things under the bed . . . The bulk of newspaper readers are essentially reasonable people over the long run. They'll howl plenty when you tread on their pet opinions - especially religious opinions. But if they...