Word: know
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...annual dinner of the National Cartoonists' Society last week, everybody recognized President Milt (Steve Canyon) Caniff and Chief Speaker Al (Li'l Abner) Capp at the head table. But most of the 200 guests did not know the big, sandy-haired fellow in the place of honor. Murat Bernard ("Chic") Young, on his first visit to Manhattan in ten years, looked more like a small-town businessman than the $300,000-a-year creator of the world's most widely syndicated comic strip (Blondie), and the cartoonists' choice as best cartoonist of the year...
...Alexander ("Baby Dumpling"), their daughter Cookie, their dog Daisy and her puppies are as real as the folks next door. When Cookie was "born," 431,275 readers suggested names for her. If Blondie fries an egg in a new-type pan, letters flood in from readers who want to know where...
...Yale, and as young artillery lieutenants at Camp Jackson in World War I, they dreamed and schemed about a paper or magazine that would make the world better informed about what it was doing. "People talk too much about things they don't know," Hadden would complain. What was needed, they agreed, was a medium that would organize the chaotic flow of news so that even a man from Mars could understand it. After graduation from Yale, they went their separate ways for seasoning. Luce went to Oxford and then to a reporter's job on the Chicago...
While venality in the press is rare enough to be big news whenever it happens, the Thiem-Harris exposé made no headlines in newspapers in other states for two weeks. The main reason was that most of the papers did not know about it; no news service had carried the story. Explained Executive Editor Alan Gould of the Associated Press: "In the beginning, we didn't think it was worth the wire space." Last week, after the A.P. got some calls from clients, it decided the scandal was news, after all, and put out the two-week...
Maggie Porter says she didn't know paint from parsley, but she was hardly the helpless type. She had spent 13 years as food editor of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, once clerked for three months in a grocery to bolster her research as coauthor of a housewives' handbook called To Market, To Market. As a banker's daughter and a graduate of socialite Mary Institute, she knew plenty of influential St. Louisans...