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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wilson will moderate a half-hour panel discussion covering a variety of issues, ranging from the death penalty to driver legislation. He said this week he hopes the show's format will overcome television's tendency to over-simplify...
...Emerson Junior High in Dayton, Bombeck started writing a humor column for a school newspaper called The Owl. Says Bill Bombeck: "The format hasn't changed a lot. You're talking about someone who has been writing a personal column since she was twelve or 13 years old." Bombeck had been fairly offhanded about singing and dancing, but wising off in print was the best thing since soaping windows at Halloween. A couple of years later she was at it again, clowning about shoplifting, clearance sales and the lunch menu for the newsletter of Rike's department...
...seem an unlikely buyer for U.S. News, a magazine that prides itself on a down-home flavor virtually devoid of literary flourishes and serves a predominantly Midwest and Sunbelt audience. Founded as a daily national newspaper in 1926 by David Lawrence, a syndicated columnist, it evolved into its present format after World War II. In contrast to TIME (U.S. circ. 4.6 million) and Newsweek (U.S. circ. 3 million), U.S. News downplays reportage of a week's events in favor of analysis of their impact on readers and gives scant, though increasing, attention to technology, culture and lifestyles...
...departments in TIME, only one has appeared in every issue, unaltered in format, for all 61 years of the magazine's existence. That department is Milestones, essentially the compilation of births, marriages, divorces and deaths that have national or international significance. The first Milestones section, appearing in the March 3, 1923, issue, listed seven deaths. Among them: Thomas Shaw, the last survivor of the 1854 charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War; Mary Logan, who conceived the idea of Memorial Day; and an Indian widow who committed suttee on the funeral pyre of her husband...
...approach to the genre, a two-year-old Los Angeles publishing company named AccessPress Ltd. has, under the guidance of its founder, Architect-Cartographer Richard Saul Wurman, 49, reinvented the wheel with a series of compact volumes that open up cities through striking graphics, terse copy and a tight format...