Word: masthead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With a moral and financial boost from the Crimson, the Network got University recognition and set up studios in the now defunct Shepard Hall on Holyoke Street. Its executive board was, in the very beginning, a part of the Crimson masthead and largely peopled by Crimeds. It soon became obvious, however, that the Network was being run by Network men, and the two organizations began slipping apart in a complicated series of negotiations that came to an end only last week...
...100th anniversary of the late great Joseph Pulitzer's-birth, his St. Louis Post-Dispatch last week had only to recall a few of his own. It led off a 20-page memorial section with the platform J.P. had nailed to the Post-Dispatch's masthead on his 60th birthday...
...Oregon's southern coast, where he began saving for his present big expansion, largely financed by Cleveland Newspaper Broker Smith Davis. Sackett decided that his chain would be "owned by the men who run it, run by the men who own it." The motto will appear on the masthead of the Seattle Star, and Sackett's employees will "eventually" hold (but may not bequeath) 49% of the stock. The new boss said airily that he was out to "restore the press to the people." Seattle would be satisfied if he would just restore the Star as a newspaper...
...newspaper editor, his masthead motto had been: "Independent in all things, neutral in none." When he became acting governor in 1943 (the governor-elect died before taking office), Wisconsin politicians learned that he hadn't changed. The self-styled "tough old codger" tackled every sacred cow and pressure group, from the American Legion to organized labor. He cracked down on lobbyists, gamblers, and battled the highway lobby...
...emphasizing global words (No. i across: "goal of the U.N." in five letters); and a four-page picture sequence showing U.N. delegates shaking hands and grinning vaguely at each other. In its table of contents were names like Pearl Buck, Arthur Compton, Trygve Lie, Edouard Herriot; on its editorial masthead were names like William L. Shirer, Thomas Mann, Jawaharlal Nehru, Vincent Sheean and Lin Yutang. The magazine's real head is Publisher Egbert White, a former Manhattan advertising executive who ran Yank and the Mediterranean Stars and Stripes for the Army...