Word: makeups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grozier's son Richard in 1946, the paper was technically under the direction of two executors. Actually, City Editor Dunn, Managing Editor Charles R. Doyle and Sunday Editor John Griffin ran the editorial side pretty much as they liked. Sentimentally fond of the Post's slapdash makeup, they came to feel it was "just the way the readers like...
Papers in the chain have been changing their makeup, dumping the old circus & gingerbread style that was a Hearst trademark. In its place have come cleaner headline type, fewer screaming bannerlines and a more up-to-date, readable layout. Gigantic cartoons and other boiler plate that once poured out of Hearst headquarters are now passed up by editors whenever they will, and even such well-entrenched Hearst columnists as Westbrook Pegler and George Sokolsky may be dropped or trimmed as editors desire...
...pictures in the issue are generally good. Quite a few are very good, and one, of Professor Finley eagerly following some sport, is extremely expressive. Unfortunately, the pictures have not been given the benefit of imaginative makeup. They often block continuity, rather than facilitating it, and are not bled, centered, and arranged in any consistently esthetic pattern...
...derivation of "ham" as applied to "h'amateur" actors in your article on Charles Laughton differs from what I believe to be the correct one. The oldtime minstrels used to apply ham-fat to their faces so that their burnt-cork makeup would be easier to remove. They thus became known as "ham-fatters," the word eventually being shortened to "ham," and used to designate any broad, slapstick performances such as those of the minstrels. Now, of course, it simply means bad acting...
During the last four weeks, American automobile makers have been unveiling their new models with all the calculated coyness of a middle-aged stripper. By last Friday when Nash 'came out,' the lineup was complete, if dull. There had been some artful padding and plastering of gaudy makeup, but for most manufacturers the changes weren't even skin deep...