Word: hartfords
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subject-except newspapers. Hoping to remedy the "voicelessness of the press about its own business" and its "almost psychopathic" sensitivity to criticism, the New England Society of Newspaper Editors began last week to publish an outspoken new magazine, the American Editor. Said Carl E. Lindstrom, executive editor of the Hartford Times, who is the society's president and editor of the new quarterly: "This journal is dedicated to self-examination rather than selfcriticism, but we shall not be afraid to study critically any of our habits...
...Newspaper coverage has not kept pace with the upsurge of public interest in the arts, wrote Theodore H. Parker, longtime critic of all arts for the Hartford Courant (circ. 99,812). "Theater, music, fine arts, dance reviewers are still too often the products of chance. True, not all newspapers need a full-time critic in one or all these fields. But the choice of even a part-time critic, or occasional reviewer, does not always get the care that would be taken in assigning a man to other specialized beats...
Perhaps the most telling critique came from George K. Moriarty, telegraph editor of the Hartford Times (circ. 116,012), who wrote: "The ground plan and execution of the news story today are as out of date as sonnet writing or the sleigh ride." By long usage, wire services and most newspapers cram the major facts into the first paragraph, then return to each point later for fuller treatment. The result is repetition that taxes both "the paper's newsprint supply [at $135 a ton] and the reader's patience"; it also impairs the readability of many stories that...
...selling off the property of a Penn-Texas subsidiary, Colt's Patent Firearms of Hartford, Conn., Silberstein raised $2,000,000 in cash, then leased back the plant at $231,264 a year for 20 years-or a total...