Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...title by almost half a century. For backgrounds, Buffalo-born Wilber draws heavily on his own experiences and on stories he has heard during his tours of duty on such papers as the old Buffalo Times (where he started as a copy boy), the Birmingham Age-Herald, Milwaukee Journal, Memphis Commercial Appeal, and as a stringer for Alaska's Ketchikan Chronicle and Anchorage Times...
...stations or suffer rate penalties in the papers, and 3) take ads in morning, evening and Sunday papers as a unit. Furthermore, said the Government, the Star forced subscribers to buy the three papers, instead of offering the papers individually. The Government also charged that when the Kansas City Journal-Post died in 1942, the Star helped prevent a new paper from moving in by buying its equipment, then jacked up its own subscription price...
...buying up the Journal-Post equipment, the Star bought only a few scattered pieces, which were auctioned off three years after the paper folded. The increase in the paper's price, said Roberts, came at a time when the Star - like every U.S. paper - was raising its daily price to meet such increased costs as a near tripling in the price of news print, 185% increase in its labor bill and a 265% tax hike. Roberts bitterly recalled two other cases in which the Gov ernment and the Star were involved. During the late 1930s, the Star finally began...
Dead Certain. In London, the Funeral Workers' Journal wished its subscribers the very best for 1953, added: "During the year we have achieved further successes. The new year will provide opportunities for further advances...
...Havenites often see him striding about the town, reciting to himself the paragraphs that will soon be transferred verbatim to his notebooks. Like most authors, Wilder hates to write. Sometimes he plays hooky in the Yale library ("I flip through an archaeological journal and read a piece about a new excavation in Herculaneum. I even read medical journals"). He "does" Finnegan's Wake, pores over Kierkegaard, works at his hobby of dating the plays of Lope de Vega, strums on the piano, or reads a score of a Palestrina Mass. After lunch he usually takes a long nap. After...