Word: itemize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That kind of news item, and such headlines as BILL CAREY'S PANTS FOUND AT SABUTTUS, sometimes makes the 1,500 Down-East readers of the Lisbon Falls (Me.) Enterprise suspect that their weekly is pulling their legs. But his tongue-in-cheek reporting, besides winning Editor-Author (Farmer Takes a Wife) John Gould, 38, a reputation as a Yankee humorist, has brought his weekly 1,000 "foreign" subscribers from other parts...
...editors blinked at his definition of news: "No news is often the best news. . . . The Enterprise is not above reporting that 'Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Harriman stayed home over the weekend.' This satisfies many of the requirements of the ideal news item, even if no other newspaper [knows] it. It gets Ken's name in the paper, informs his neighbors what he is doing, and entices the attention of people who never heard of him, if only to make them comment that this is one hell of a newspaper...
...editorial page. It boasted that the city had grown 33% since the 1940 census. Crowed the headline: SEATTLE'S BEST YEARS ARE AHEAD. But on Page One another, sadder editorial said that the Star would not be around to enjoy them. Bled by "terrific increases in every item" of publishing costs, the paper was folding up that...
Columnist Igor Cassini, who as Cholly Knickerbocker is Hearst's No. i know-it-all-&-tell-it-all on society, got scooped on a gossipy item involving his stylish wife, Austine Cassini, writer of society gossip for the Washington Times-Herald. In a rival paper, Cassini read a breathless, unconfirmed rumor that "Bootsie"-dubbed last year the Most Magnificent Doll Among American Newspaperwomen-had settled down in Reno to divorce...
Only Lowell has not yet decided upon a project. Improvements range from fixing an Old Dutch grandfather's clock in Dunster House to a new tennis court at Leverett. Music rooms, however, are the most frequent expenditure item...