Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When they opened their papers one morning last week, the 182,511 readers of the Los Angeles Times were pleased to see that that journal had treated itself to a new and more legible format and type dress. The new face which the Times turned to its public was the result of months of cogitation by sober-sided Publisher Harry Chandler and Gilbert P. Farrar, type consultant for American Type Founders Co. Gone were the old-fashioned banked and pyramided headlines. Gone was the seven-point body type at which faithful Times readers had squinted for 26 years. New heads...
...owner of Pathfinder was bustling, 48-year-old Managing Editor Sevellon Brown of the Providence Journal and Bulletin. Inheriting a share in Pathfinder last February from his father-in-law, the late Senate Sergeant-at-Arms David Sheldon Barry,* who bought in with Editor Mitchell early in 1900, shrewd Mr. Brown lost no time in acquiring enough Pathfinder stock for full control. On Pathfinder's staff went Mr. Brown's sons Barry and Sevellon III. Pathfinder's youthful new staff proposed to lop off "deadwood" in its 1,129,481 circulation, oust questionable advertising. Editorially they promised...
...Satevepost advertising again on the upswing. The magazine took in $22,045,333.50, paid Mr. Lorimer $100,000 for editing it. As the second largest individual stockholder in the com pany, Mr. Lorimer has been unquestioned boss of all Curtis publications (Saturday Evening Post, Country Gentleman, Ladies' Home Journal), since old Mr. Curtis' death...
...Sundays from the Times (circ. 36,300). He declares that Chattanooga is tired of the radical policies of the News, whose Editor George Fort Milton (The Age of Hate) is notably "agin" the local power company. The Free Press is as ardently pro-Landon as the nearby Knoxville Journal, which three months ago got out of receivership with the help of Republican money. According to Publisher McDonald, he owes only $60,000 for the modern presses and equipment he has installed. Delivery of the enlarged Free Press requires no new outlay of funds. Publisher McDonald uses Groceryman McDonald...
...doctor who first observed this patient was Neuropsychiatrist John Daniel O'Brien of Canton's Mercy Hospital. Dr. O'Brien kept track of her after the operation, reported her case last week in the American Medical Association's Journal...