Word: journals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...every newspaper man knows about the office taboos -words that can't be printed and sights that can't be shown. The Chicago Daily News, a reasonable paper in other respects, used to paint out the nipples of male wrestlers and other shirtless athletes. The Atlanta Journal supplies shirts. Before passing an ad for the movie The Love Makers, in which Claudia Cardinale reposes on the chest of Jean-Paul Belmondo, the Journal daubed a tunic on Belmondo. In Southern California, where seminudity is a way of life, the Los Angeles Times does its best to spare readers...
Despite these advantages, the nursling's survival prospect was never very high. The 1959 strike failed to shut down the city's existing dailies, the Journal and the Oregonian, thus denying the newcomer the opportunity to exploit a temporary news vacuum. Moreover, Portland readers seemed undisposed to support a union paper that tried so hard to avoid the union label that it packed as much punch as a Sunday supplement. Although the Oregonian and the Journal have together lost 79,000 in circulation since the strike, the tabloid Reporter could not even attract all those defectors. At death...
Like England's postwar Angry Young Men, Cambridge's middle-aging theologians are more of a group to their enemies than to themselves. They do share a common Anglican faith, teach at the same university and contribute occasionally to the same scholarly journal, Theology. Some of them meet once a term after dinner to discuss a theological paper. But in viewpoint, they range from High Church to Low, from demythologizing radical to ethical conservative, and they quarrel with each other as much as with men who never crossed the Cam. "We have no common ground in a positive...
Annoyed by a rash of petit larcenies from his column, all committed by the Journal-American, McHarry invented the maharaja-Ali Rounj is an anagram for Journal, (with an i added for the sake of Ali); Estarh is an anagram for Hearst. Then the columnist began chronicling the maharaja's doings. Two months passed before the Journal-American, which went right on lifting other McHarry tidbits, bit on Ali Rounj...
...pretty happy," said McHarry of his successful fishing expedition. Said a Journal-American spokesman: "We congratulate the Daily News on having had the phony item first...