Word: masthead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...masthead of Publisher Marshall Field's Chicago Sun-Times (circ. 630,000) appeared a new name last week: "Marshall Field Jr., assistant publisher and associate editor." After a 3½-year apprenticeship, young (33) "Marsh" Field had taken over the dominant editorial role in the round-the-clock tabloid that some day he will...
...Square. The poetry and prose departments are lukewarm at best-the best being a nicely illustrated but overlong discussion of the Social Register by one Rex Pose. Perhaps the funniest part of this issue is the absence of all titles behind the names of the executive board on the masthead...
Dancing Taught. When Pearl Harbor came, Gould was in the U.S. The Japanese shanghaied his paper, publishing a Rising Sun house organ under the familiar masthead. To counteract its propaganda effect, Publisher Starr and Editor Gould opened up shop in New York and flew the weekly edition to Free China for distribution. Barely a month after V-J day, Gould was back in his old Shanghai shop feeding the dwindled foreign community the old familiar diet of gossipy chitchat, straight news, Li'l Abner, Joe Palooka and Dorothy Dix. Soon he was squabbling with Nationalist censors. When one killed...
...great day for the Irish. In carts and jalopies, thousands poured into Dublin to join the celebrations. The green, white and orange flag flew high from every masthead and on almost every street corner banners greeted the day with the words: "Welcome the Republic of Ireland." Only old Eamon de Valera was gloomy. "Public rejoicing is out of place," he said, "so long as our country remains partitioned...
...isolated camp in northern Queensland, Australia, Geologist J. G. Hathaway probably qualifies as TIME'S most thorough reader. He writes : "I read every flamin' word: news, ads, picture credits, even the masthead (I see Marshall Smith got a promotion). I even count the type faces used...