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...without being replaced: 39% are 65 or older, while only 28% are under 45. Admits Hoagland: "We should not take a loyal readership for granted." The age of the Monitor's following is in turn a factor in discouraging advertisers, even though the readership is affluent (median household income: $32,000). Thus the paper now contains only about 25% advertising, compared with up to 60% in many other dailies, a level that Hoagland suggests the Monitor could some day reach. Says...
...atom was still unsplit. So were most marriages. Movies were silent, television existed only in the laboratory, and a "byte," however you spelled it, had to do with food, not information. Freud was becoming an unsettling household word, although the U.S. was not yet his colony. Hitler was still widely regarded as a hysterical Munich beer-hall brawler who could have benefited from Freud's treatment. In headlines "holocaust" was only a word for a large fire. Japan's chief export was raw silk. The jet set did not yet exist; its precursor, the smart set, took a week...
Originally created by British commercial television, the series brings the household serving staff in from the cold periphery of drama to its center. All the episodes are self-contained, but there is a solid cotton thread tying them together, namely Rose, the head houseparlor-maid, played by Jean Marsh-who is also one of the show's co-creators...
...proposed new regulations that could make millions of poor people, many of them elderly, ineligible for free legal assistance. The pending rules could disqualify those with more than $15,000 equity in a home or $4,500 in a car. They would also assume that a household's assets are the assets of any person residing there, including elderly parents living with their children, retarded people living with relatives, and battered wives living at home...
...Bisnow's analysis is more than just a chance to get even with Garth. It is a close examination of the quirks and surprises of trying to raise a candidate from a small "asterisk" notation in the polls to an almost household-name awareness, of how an obscure Congressman can become a likely alternative to the candidates provided by the two-party system...