Word: internationale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In 1952, a city-room earthquake rocked the morning San Francisco Chronicle, and 38 staffers disappeared from view, including Boy Wonder Editor Paul Smith (TIME, Dec. 22, 1952). Before the shakeup, the Chronicle had a studious and often dull international bent, a slipping circulation of 155,205 (down 20,356...
Prime shaker of the quake that started the Chronicle rolling was energetic Assistant Publisher Charles de Young Thieriot, who later became editor and publisher. A descendant of Charles and Michael de Young, teen-age brothers who founded the Chronicle in 1865 on a borrowed $20 gold piece, Thieriot gave the...
¶ In the fastest automobile race ever run, Miami's Jim Rathmann drove his Simoniz Special around the steep-banked, 2½-mile track of the new Daytona International Speedway at an average speed of 170.261 m.p.h. to win the 100-mile U.S. Automobile Club championship race, breaking his...
The strength came from a new move into the old blue-chip favorites by big investors who were sitting on the sidelines waiting for the big board to settle down. Buyers rallied to International Business Machines after President Thomas J. Watson announced a 3-for-2 split and an increased...
"We are really concentrating on cars this year-cars that look well, run well, and are available to the ordinary citizen." So said an exhibitor last week of the biggest auto show ever held in the U.S. The Third International Automobile Show filled Manhattan's Coliseum with more than...