Word: folds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker has been so hard pressed for money that early last month it presented its readers with an ultimatum: unless subscribers came across with a full $50,000 in contributions, the paper would have to fold (TIME, Dec. 15). This week the Worker triumphantly announced that it had reached its goal. Where the Worker got the money was still a mystery. Even by its own bookkeeping, the donations had run as low as $3,600 a week, instead of the $6,000 a week the paper said it ".must receive" to reach $50,000. Furthermore...
...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...
...mean every reader-immediately send from five to ten dollars." The Worker could expect no help from its blood brother across the Atlantic, the London Daily Worker. For months it, too, has been appealing for money on Page One, may have to slim down to a single page, or fold altogether...
...Artzybasheff's cover drawing for this week's issue of TIME marks the first appearance of the space robot of tomorrow on TIME'S cover. But in the past, TIME has devoted a number of covers (26 in all) to other newsworthy personalities outside the human fold...
...spend their lives on the surface of a sheet of paper, and who cannot form any conception of the three-dimensional world. If the paper were bent into a deep U, they could not cut across from one edge to the other; they would have to go around the fold...