Word: earless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pictures were cropped to closeups of chinless, earless faces. The Trib s prizewinning front page was now a blotch, with capsule news summaries and headlines that always seemed to end with a question mark. (One staffer swears he received a wire saying, WE HAVE THE FOLLOWING HEADLINE. WRITE STORY FOR USE WITH IT.) A lot of money was spent on promotion: "A good newspaper doesn't have to be dull." And circulation rose a bit. Then the 1962-63 printers' strike smashed the effort. Another economy drive had already got Denson (he missed too many deadlines), and after...
Mending (along with his wife) in the hospital, Batchelor allowed that the experience had left him earless but not careless: "It isn't every day that a safety cartoonist can be the beneficiary of his own mistakes...