Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...always a little skeptical of the new faces that keep turning up on the newsstand from month to month but one of our Massachusetts Avenue operators happened upon an item just the other day that deserves to be noised about. The issue in question runs to 52 pages, with covers, and up and down the left side of the front cover is a string of letters from which we deciphered "Harvard" and "Lampoon" without too much trouble. We were a little perplexed by all this until we turned to page three and saw there an ad for Steuben Glass. This...
...smooth sailing. In Eugene a group of student hecklers from the University of Oregon plopped down in the front row, diligently leafed through copies of LIFE with a picture of Harold Stassen on the cover. In Portland, Dewey refused a drink of bourbon offered by a local politico, ducked out for his own bottle of Scotch. Commented a local columnist: "Out West here, podner, men have been shot for refusing to drink out of the common cookin' likker bottle and then showing up with their own pizen...
...road was a Russian outpost. Through field glasses, the Americans watched the Russians watching them through glasses of their own. As the U.S. party waited in the hot sun, some Russians fired a few quick bursts from an automatic weapon. Some of the Americans flexed for a dive to cover. Then they checked: this was only target practice...
...dressed up to become, once more, a magazine for scientific Americans. With a new editorial board, headed by Gerard Piel, former LIFE science editor, and backers who included Lessing J. Rosenwald and Bernard Baruch, Scientific American hoped to bring science into 100,000 armchairs. Inside the sleek, four-color cover of its May issue were well-illustrated articles on such topics as Vesalius, founder of modern anatomy; the Amazon River; the "dust cloud" theory of the formation of planetary systems. First press run: 100,000 copies, including 40,000 for subscribers...
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