Word: globe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...monthly Bulletin of the Council for Basic Education, a cranky, flea-sized (16 one-column pages) publication that subsists on what it bites from the hide of fuzzy-thinking educators. Among the pre-chewed classics cited by Editor Mortimer Smith: A Tale of Two Cities, from which, in the Globe Book Co. edition, "nonessential parts of the plot" are excised, and "long descriptive and philosophical passages" are abridged. One of the nonessential parts: Dickens' ringing opening sentence-"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom...
...always happy about the front-page ads," says Globe Treasurer John I. Taylor, "but this is a competitive newspaper town, and these ads bring us money." When the Traveler once tried to cut down its outsize headlines, says Managing Editor Hal Clancy, "our circulation went to hell. We have to have them." Fighting for street sales, which comprise up to 40% of average sales, the Globe packs the front page with short leads, which leap helter-skelter to inside pages...
Longevity may be partly to blame. Of the Globe's 1,500 employees, 398 have been with the paper for more than 25 years, 30 for more than 50. Globe Editor Larry Winship has fired only one editorial staffer* in 44 years. Whatever the cause, says one managing editor, "we have too many 9-to-5 reporters. For every five people on your staff, you have one newspaperman. The others are hanging on his back...
...According to Globe legend, a man whom Winship overheard calling another "You dirty Jew." Winship fired him on the spot...
Among U.S. shippers, the Isbrandtsen Steamship Line is a lone sea wolf. The biggest independent line operator in the world, Isbrandtsen has fought governments around the globe in the name of freedom of the seas, has battled fellow shippers to establish free rates. Last week, after a ten-year battle, Isbrandtsen recorded the most important victory in its log book. Ruling in Isbrandtsen's favor, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the rate-setting practices of the international shipping conferences-voluntary groups of U.S. and foreign lines-thus opening the way for a flurry of price-cutting...