Word: hardes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tintin (pronounced roughly: Tantan) has been scotching evil since 1929, now appears in dozens of papers and magazines across Europe. A Tintin comic book sells 250,000 copies a week; Tintin hard-cover book sales have reached 8,000,000. French stores sell Tintin soap, underwear and pajamas; null heads of the boy and his dog disconcertingly survey Brussels from the top of a nine-story building built by Herge's publisher...
...circulation increase, afternoon papers 8%, against an increase of 15% in the number of U.S. households. ¶ Foreign news reporting, said Ed Stone of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, "is dull and sterile for the most part. We're not reporting on the people out where the people are . . . Hard news has come to mean hard to digest, hard to read and hard to get anybody to understand. I submit that foreign news is becoming local news, and unless we wake up to that fact, we're living in a dream world of the past...
...George W. Spayth scrapped a career as an editorial and features cartoonist (Milwaukee News, Washington Times, Houston Chronicle), borrowed $1,500 on an insurance policy, and started a weekly in Dunellen, N.J. With a fancy for hard work and a flair for the outlandish, Publisher Spayth has doggedly built his investment into three small Jersey weeklies and a shopping-news, this year will gross some...
...raise. Last week, at 66, Spayth was hunting for a successor with a characteristically flip and frank tactic. WANTED-A SUCKER LIKE I WAS, read his want ad in the Publishers' Auxiliary, a Chicago trade paper. Spayth's scheme: to hire someone willing to work as hard as he does, in return for a regular salary plus weekly lOUs that would be converted into a down payment on the paper. Spayth's condition: "The closing of title to take place 24 hours after my carcass cools off, with the balance due being secured by first mortgage...
...return. But in the Western world, at least, a human sent into space must have a reasonable chance to get back in fair condition. At the Air Force's invitation, scientists gathered last week in San Antonio for the second international symposium on space problems, and took a hard look at that "reasonable chance...