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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...
...advance. All told, 336,000 Germans optimistically paid in $112 million for Volkswagens, but only a scattered few got delivery before the tiny production of the company was stopped by World War II. With the successful comeback of the postwar Volkswagen company under Heinz Nordhoff (TIME, Feb. 15), the earless car owners sued Volkswagen to get an auto. But Nordhoff refused to recognize the debt. Last week the German High Federal Court at Karlsruhe ruled that Nordhoff was right. Said the court...
...native to China. the English walnut to Persia, celery to the Mediterranean. Sometime around the 5th Century, primitive South American corn, which had small, globular ears and irregular kernels, was crossed with the strong, tall gamma grass which grows in Central America. Result of this crossbreeding was teosinte, an earless corn-producing plant which still grows wild in Mexico and the highlands of Guatemala. Crossed and recrossed with South American corn, teosinte produced the elongated ear and regular rows characteristic of modern corn...
...automen expect 4,500,000 cars to be built in the first full year of postwar production, possibly 6,000,000 a year thereafter (previous top: 4,794,000 in 1929). Reason: the 5,000 U.S. cars arriving daily at "graveyards" will leave 6,500,000 onetime car owners earless a year hence, 8,000,000 others driving "junkers" (cars over 7½ years...