Word: ink
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Novelist Irving Wallace and his son David Wallechinsky* justify this massive expenditure of paper and ink with forthright immodesty: "Where the familiar, standard almanacs leave off and stop-well, that's where The People's Almanac begins." They are incontestably correct. Among the items not to be found in standard almanacs but present here: summaries of every game played in the Little League World Series; a biography of Scrooge McDuck, Donald Duck's miserly uncle; pop psychohistories of selected U.S. Presidents, including Truman ("Harry was a 'mama's boy' "); 16 pages of fact...
...poster was colorful: the slogan was written with bright red ink and dramatically punctuated with a knife dripping blood...
Gerald Ford did not go by the code name "Snowbunny" on the ski slopes at Vail last Christmas, but he did one day on the pen-and-ink slopes of Doonesbury. That comic-strip episode now hangs on the wall of Ford's private study, just off the Oval Office. Down the hall, Ron Nessen keeps three more Doonesburys, all poking gentle fun at the press secretary. Downstairs, in the office of White House Photographer David Kennerly, who covered the Viet Nam War for U.P.I, and TIME, there is a set of Doonesbury panels depicting a homesick Viet Cong...
...York City, where last week he went out with Candice Bergen.) One floor of the town house is taken up by his cluttered studio, in which he outlines the strip with a pencil, often to the accompaniment of thundering Rolling Stones music. The lines are gone over in ink by an artist at the syndicate's Kansas City headquarters. Trudeau can be spotted most afternoons jogging around the park behind his house. "I'm a religious jogger," says Trudeau, who spends three hours a day at it. Doonesbury's characters could fill a catalogue with their bizarre...
Singer's problems in the field stemmed largely from cost overruns in marketing and servicing. In 1974 it had to borrow $150 million to keep the business-machines division operating. Largely because of red ink there, Singer that year posted a loss of $10.1 million, its first deficit since 1917. In last year's first nine months, Singer lost another $36.7 million...