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...press, which abounds in advice to readers on their physical, mental and marital symptoms, spurned their dental troubles until 1956 when a young (32), crew-cut Cincinnati dentist named Peter Garvin decided to fill the cavity. Three months after its first appearance in Columbus' Ohio State Journal (circ. 80,834), Dentist Garvin's column (title: "Your Teeth") was picked up by General Features Corp. and offered to newspapers across...
...successful newspapers," declaimed querulous, bellicose H. L. Mencken, "are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose." The most conspicuous exception to Mencken's Law is the Christian Science Monitor (circ. 158,729). which never whines, cusses or blusters, but sets out daily, as enjoined by Christian Science Founder Mary Baker Eddy, to ''spread confidence instead of fear, record the good men do instead of magnifying and exploiting the regrettable evil...
...best-known staffers, including Cartoon Editor (and Co-Founder) Eryk Lipinski, 49, have long been Communists or fellow travelers and know intuitively how deep they can sink their shafts. In a country that has long suffered satirists more willingly than reporters, Polish newsmen believe that Szpilki is so popular (circ. 165,000) that it is virtually assassination-proof...
Less than two years after the U.S. Treasury's unsuccessful attempt to shutter Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker (TIME, April 9, 1956), the Communist Party succeeded in doing so this week. The tabloid (circ. 5,574) died despite feverish rescue attempts by Editor in Chief (and a party secretary) John W. Gates, 44, who was cut off from party funds in a long-drawn-out squabble (TIME, Jan. 13) with the dominant Stalinist faction led by Party Chief William Z. Foster. As the Daily Worker went, so went Editor Gates's party card. After 27 years...
Readers of West Virginia's Clarksburg evening Telegram and its sister morning paper, the Exponent (combined circ. 37,000), gawked last week at a new contest. On the front page appeared a "Secret Witness" form urging readers to fill in the blanks. It read: "I think the following person or persons should be suspected of the murder [of Milton J. Cohen, 59-year-old co-owner of the city's most fashionable women's shop] : Name __________. Address ___________, Or full description _________. For following reasons _________________." The form made clear that "in case of duplicate information, the letter bearing...