Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seems that LIME's crew-cut correspondent was assigned to cover the annual Sadie Hawkins Day race-a sunup-to-sundown open season on bachelors not fleet enough to evade the local spinsters. This painful adventure was Capp's idea of tender treatment for a magazine he had come to regard as an old friend. Says Capp: "Gee whiz, you've been so sweet to me over the years, it's sort of like kicking Santa Claus...
...Fleet Streeters think that Rothermere, who inherited the chain when his father died in 1940, may be able to put the Graphic on its feet. Last year his Weekly Overseas Mail grew from a few thousand readers to more than a million on nourishing helpings of cheesecake...
...Lord Kemsley's prim Daily Graphic (circ. 753,537) is no match for the racy, zestful Daily Mirror (circ. 4,432,700), largest daily newspaper in the world. While the Graphic carefully minds its manners, the Mirror minds its readers with eye-catching cheesecake and lurid tabloid writing. Fleet Streeters even recall that the Graphic once cropped a picture to show only the head of a bull because Lady Kemsley protested that the entire photo would offend Graphic readers...
...result of its dullness, the Graphic's earnings have dropped sharply and Fleet Street buzzed with rumors that it was about to fold. Last week, in time's nick, the Graphic was saved. Publisher Kemsley sold it to Lord Rothermere, owner of the Daily Mail, Evening News and Sunday Dispatch. "It's been the quickest deal I've ever known," said one Rothermere executive. "And the best-kept secret," Fleet Streeters hastened...
...first time what submerged combat was really like. The services were still pumping out solid tomes that celebrated and detailed their contributions. Among the few U.S. war leaders who had not yet published their memoirs, only Admiral Ernest J. King came forth with a full-dress account. His Fleet Admiral King reflected the toughness that made him valuable, but only a student or a devoted Navy man could follow a happy course through its battleship-grey prose...