Word: jumpings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reading his newspaper at the Columbia University Club in Manhattan where he resides, white-thatched Col. Lloyd Collis used to snort with annoyance every time he encountered a front page story "jumped" (continued) to an inside page. By the time he could find the continued part, his train of thought would have snapped. A civil engineer, a city planner, a man of action decorated by the U. S. and the City of Bordeaux for War service, Col. Collis took corrective steps. For three months he grappled with the problem; then he marched to his good friend Editor Julian Starkweather Mason...
Only one story on any one inside page would be designated by the black square (which, Col. Collis' oculist explained, offered the utmost in quick visibility). Other symbols copyrighted by Col. Collis for newspaper "jump-line" purposes include...
Said the Post editorially of its "jump gadgets": ". . . one of those experiments which contribute so directly to the charm and interest of journalism...
...perused somebody's paper, obviously oblivious to the hurrying footsteps of time bringing in the next mail, "I remember when they had a bunch of good men in office. Look at Hoover there, he's just too yellow to start anything. He's so afraid that somebody will jump on his neck that he won't do anything about the depression or prohibition or national debts. What this country needs is an Irishman in office. He would show them how to take things in hand and stop this shilly-shallying around issues. Personally all I am interested...
...short and dreary. When Eskimos are not busy mushing about, gobbling raw meat and candles, they sit down for a rubber of bridge. And many Eskimos play rather well, too. At Churchill, Canada's new wheat port on Hudson Bay (TIME, Sept. 14), 30 men meet regularly for jump-bids and approach-forces throughout the winter. For one of these there had to be a substitute last week; Arsene Turquetil had laid aside his cards, put on his fur cap and gone down south to Montreal. Arsene Turquetil was hard to replace. He is not only a good bridge player...