Word: exception
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Except for Chic Young's Blondie and Chester Gould's Dick Tracy, no U.S. comic strip has ever scored a solid hit in Britain. But when the lid was taken off newsprint last winter, the London Sunday Pictorial jumped to sign up Al Capp's Li'l Abner. Editor Harry Guy Bartholomew, whose knowing tabloid touch had built the London Daily Mirror (circ. 4,400,000) into the world's biggest daily, thought that his even bigger weekend Pictorial audience (4,800,000) would eat up Capp's super-edible Shmoos as hungrily...
...warmongering" U.S. and British press), the convention guarantees foreign correspondents free movement between signatory nations, and free access to news within them-rights they already have in all the nations likely to sign such a treaty. It forbids expulsion of newsmen for lawful newsgathering, and prohibits censorship except on national-defense matters. Under its "right of correction," a signatory country that feels a correspondent has distorted the news can send its own version to his government, which must release the correction to all news agencies but may not require its publication. All in all, U.S. Delegate Erwin D. ("Spike") Canham...
...stare stonily ahead whenever nonmembers ask them what their societies do. If the questioner persists,* members of such societies as Skull & Bones, Scroll & Key and Berzelius are expected to leave the room. Such behavior has sometimes led irreverent outsiders to suspect that the societies do nothing at all, except make mysteries of themselves, behind the bronze doors and windowless walls of their New Haven "tombs." But it has never prevented Yale juniors from hoping that they too will feel a hand fall on their shoulders at the traditional tap day each spring. To be one of the 15 men elected...
...project, which will be the first phase of the Key's indoctrination program, will be administered through Harvard Clubs. Men are needed from all parts of the country except Boston and New York, and should consult Harrison...
These two problems, of course, are vastly complex, and solution to them cannot be reached except by protracted negotiations. Today's Big Four meeting, however, gives both sides the opportunity to start such bargaining. The current atmosphere of charge and counter-charge is hardly auspicious, especially when it appears on official levels--both in this country and in the Soviet Union--but should the Foreign Ministers deal with each other honestly over the conference table, not only Germany and Europe but the entire world would be a safer place in which to live...