Word: masthead
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...masthead of the Lampoon there are six literary editors. In the magazine as a whole there are approximately six pages of prose and poetry--none of it worth reading, and probably all reprints anyway. The material, in general, is an unfortunate selection of old wheezes and extravagant panegyrics upon the Lampoon. But as everyone who cares knows, the Lampoon hasn't made any money this year, or any other year for that matter, and we understand it will be shortly going out of business. The arrival of this issue will certainly finish things...
...They're not fooling anyone," said Lieut. McCord. "They're American owned, American manned, and carrying American freight. On some, even the decks are loaded. On others, we can see American crews on deck-at least, they look like Americans, from masthead height. Sure as hell, they're not Panamanians...
...battle among the liberals, the weekly Nation last week suffered some crippling casualties. Executive Editor Harold C. Field, righthand man of Editor Freda Kirchwey for the past two years, quietly resigned, effective the end of June. Two longtime contributors already had pulled their names from the Nation's masthead: Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, for 15 years a staff contributor, and Political Writer Robert Bendiner, contributing editor and onetime (1937-44) managing editor...
Said Theologian Niebuhr this week: "The libel suit . . . brought to a head my disagreement with the Nation on foreign policy." Added Bendiner: "I did not want the continued use of my name on the masthead to imply support of the suit against the New Leader ... a tragic mistake." Gossip in liberal circles said that Editor Field, too, disapproved of the suit, although he insisted he was leaving for "mostly personal reasons." But it was apparent that most liberals seemed to think a liberal publication should be a forum where differences of political opinion could be aired and debated, and that...
...masthead of the seventy-fifth anniversary issue of The Lampoon there are 31 business editors. In the issue as a whole, there are 31 pages of advertising. This demonstrates simply that Lampy's business board has finally achieved the rejuvenation of the magazine and has put out what is probably the first self-supporting issue in history...