Word: ken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Post was not alone in boasting of its prescience. Liberty matched the Post's Krivitzky with a Princess Radziwill, who predicted a Russo-German alliance in the issue of September 3, 1938; and in the October 20, 1938 issue of Ken one Edward Hunter had practically the same idea. Winchell guessed it, of course. He, too, reads newspapers. And Bad Boy Columnists Pearson & Allen knew some of the details a month before the deal. Among the amateurs, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. wrote in a letter dated June 7: "I still believe that eventually Russia and Germany will get together...
...defense, the team will be far below the 1938 eleven, which defeated both Yale and Princeton. Gone and irreplaceable are Bobby Green, Ken Booth, Cliff Wilson, Tim Russell, and Chief Boston. Behind a questionable line, only Joe Gardella is a tested defensive player...
...March 1938 Esquire's smart Publisher David Smart and Editor Arnold Gingrich began to publish the magazine Ken. It was a political chip off Esquire's editorial block. Its editorial program was to tell the "inside story of world events," the inside usually being more dirt on the dictatorships. But it did not go really leftish and its original leftish editorial connections-Jay Cooke Allen (Chicago Tribune'?, foreign correspondent), George Seldes (You Can't Print That!), Ernest Hemingway- gradually drifted away. Editor Gingrich went on publishing sensational "inside" stories, not consistently taking any political side, while...
Nevertheless Ken, appearing biweekly, maintained a nine-month circulation average of some 250,000, but failed to attract any substantial amount of advertising. Then subscriptions began to fall off. Last March, hoping to meet its total monthly circulation guarantees to advertisers, it began to publish four issues a month instead of two. In June Ken tried again to bolster circulation by cutting its price from 25? to 10? a copy. Last week Messrs. Smart and Gingrich announced Ken's end with the issue of August 3. Editor Gingrich wrote to subscribers: "Rather than to employ inflationary methods, the publishers...
...Ford Sunday Evening Hour, CBS. Substitute: Ford Summer Hour, on the air since June 11 with light, instead of symphonic, music and, instead of sermons by Ford Spokesman William J. Cameron, chats about River Rouge plant doings by a Rouge reporter (Ken Laub...