Word: dime
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...editorial cost of TIME today (not counting paper, printing, distribution, etc.) is $1.48 a word. In 1923 many newspapers had an average editorial cost of a cent a word; their average is still well under a dime. TIME'S $1.48 is spent (sometimes in vain) in looking for significant facts that make the story "come alive"; in checking up on other news media, and on itself; in finding the event's right place in the procession of events...
Other campaigns and services there have certainly been, but not many more in the past 15 years that will measure up to these standards of performance. What we have seen published, day after day, is a digest of news pretty well restricted to the College Yard and its myriad dime-sized activity groups. Generally the stories are accurate enough, well-enough written, and painstakingly made up in typographical balance. Perhaps this is a sufficient miracle in itself, and we should be grateful for it. Yet one cannot help remarking the curious limbos of the CRIMSON'S world...
...Treasury struck a new half-dollar, the first since 1916, bearing the portrait of Benjamin Franklin. Only other Americans on coins (except for special issues): Lincoln (1909 penny), Washington (1932 quarter), Jefferson (1938 nickel), Franklin D. Roosevelt (1946 dime) and two unidentified Indians (1859 penny and 1913 nickel...
...popular music, Alfred Bryan & Fred Fisher's 34-year-old hit Peg o' My Heart (TIME, July 7) was the top song of the year. But the biggest record-seller was Francis Craig's tinkling Near You, which skyrocketed a dime-a-dozen record company (Bullet) into the big money. Top-selling bands on records: Vaughn Monroe and Ted Weems. Among girl singers, Jo Stafford, for her mock hillbilly disc of Timtayshun, rated twice as high in hit-tune sales as Dinah Shore. Perry Como was easily the top record-seller among the crooners. Most surprising fadeout...
...Santa Anita Derby, the Preakness, the Belmont Stakes, the Saratoga Special, a score of others. Trainer Hirsch summed up what Kleberg was trying to do: "Either Assault or Stymie would make crack cow horses." In the words of a cattleman, "cow horses can start fast, turn on a dime and give you 9? change...