Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning Chronicle's lively sprint but by a costly competition for an afternoon market big enough for only one, San Francisco's two evening papers last week gave up vying and merged. The union welds weak links of two big newspaper chains: Hearst's Call-Bulletin (circ. 145,070) and Scripps-Howard's News (circ. 98,808). Since each paper had been losing an estimated $1,000,000 a year, the merger was aptly characterized by a Hearst staffer. "Imagine," he said, "being kicked to death by a dead horse...
...Reprinted form the summer issue of the AAUP Bulletin. Mr. McArthur is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Vermont...
...chain of firecrackers in the traditional Chinese celebration of good luck. At Bill Quinn's headquarters on Kapiolani Boulevard, campaign workers broke out the soda pop and Primo beer, as a four-piece, aloha-shirted band hammered out Latin tunes with a fierce beat. With each bulletin feeding new totals into Quinn's narrow plurality, came still more excitement. A stocky Portuguese-Hawaiian booster gaily swung the crowd into a chorus of When Irish Eyes Are Smiling, and the band broke out into Roll Out the Barrel. And then it was official: Quinn was elected...
Japan's comely Crown Princess Michiko, 24, suddenly stopped appearing at public functions with Crown Prince Akihito only three months after the royal wedding (TIME, April 20). Then the imperial household's chamberlain issued a very cautious bulletin: Michiko "may be with child," but the doctors are not yet absolutely positive...
...story. A group of young students and I had gathered in an office. (I paused to scan the bulletin board. When I had finished and turned again to the group, I observed the young men had casually grouped themselves on one side of the room, and the young ladies on the other side. I stood with the males. Feeling a little odd, I crossed the floor to be with the weaker sex.) Only two young women were seated. When the one nearest me perceived I was standing, she instinctively arose and tendered her seat to one older than...