Word: masthead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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About the only really intriguing aspect of the other stories and poems is trying to match the initials following them with a name on the masthead. One name does appear after a poem, that of J.H. Updike '54. Presumably the New Yorker was not intrigued...
...Chicago Daily Tribune, whose masthead daily proclaims it "The World's Greatest Newspaper," devoted 97 inches of news space last week to what it considered the world's greatest story. In a full column on Page One, the Trib reported breathlessly that Reuters' Editor Walton ("Tony") Cole, "the editor of the world's greatest international newsgathering organization," and Trib Correspondent Larry Rue, "one of the world's most famous foreign correspondents," had flown in from London and Vienna, respectively, on a weighty mission. The mission: to tell 400 members of the Trib's editorial...
Pittsburgh. The reason you may notice in the addition to the adjoining masthead : TIME is opening a new U.S. news bureau, the eleventh to be established since TIME'S first permanent editorial outpost was set up in Chicago in 1929 (before that, Henry Cabot Lodge, now U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., had been a part-time correspondent in Washington). Don Connery is the new Pittsburgh bureau chief...
...Think," distributed by A.P. Newsfeatures, lined up 271 U.S. and Canadian newspaper outlets with 17 million circulation. In several cities editors vied for the weekly column. The Washington Star snapped it up without even seeing a sample, and the New York Journal-American" splashed a red bannerline atop its masthead last week to herald publication of Gilbert's first column...
Less than an hour after the start, a thunderstorm roiled the lake. Booming along at ten knots, the yawl Querida, out of Grosse Pointe, caught a lightning bolt on her masthead. The charge knocked out the radio and most of the electrical system, swirled the compass haywire. Worst of all, it fused together a generous supply of beer cans cooling in the bilge, and for hours afterward, the bilge pump produced beer on tap. The unnerved crew grabbed for the cans that survived, and broke open the emergency supply of hard stuff. "By the time we got to Mackinac." said...