Word: masthead
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...masthead of The Harvard CRIMSON, The University Daily paper, informs us that Cambridge's only breakfast daily is published daily except Sundays, holidays, and during vacation (Spring, Christmas) from September to May inclusive, five times weekly during Reading Period, and thrice weekly during Examination Period...
...words of St. Paul still grace C.D.'s masthead, but the Rev. Louis A. Gales and the Rev. Paul C. Bussard, the magazine's creators, quickly discovered that "sermons don't sell." The magazine opened its pages to reprints from the lay press; it has accepted advertisements-thoroughly screened-since 1955. Says Father Bussard, now C.D.'s publisher: "We decided to be Catholic with a little c as well as a capital...
Almost unnoticed behind the ominous headlines last week, the varied slogans of the U.S. press continued to make one unimpeachable claim: nowhere else do front pages support so rich a top dressing of hyperbole. Rare is the U.S. paper that Forgoes the opportunity to nail a brag to its masthead. The Denver Post celebrates the CLIMATE CAPITAL OF THE WORLD. The Atlanta Journal COVERS DIXIE LIKE THE DEW. The Fairbanks News-Miner is AMERICA'S FARTHEST NORTH DAILY PAPER; the Miami News, THE BEST NEWSPAPER UNDER...
...Masthead moonshine flows thickest through the nation's weeklies, from Missouri's Unterrified Democrat (EVERYBODY READS THE U.D.) to Maine's Millinocket Journal, which tailors the New York Times's famed 65-year-old slogan (ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO PRINT) to ALL THE NEWS THAT FITS WE PRINT. In another Maine weekly, the Kennebunk Star, the mysterious initials THWTB sprouted recently on Page One. Halfheartedly, Publisher Alexander Brook explained that they stand for THE HARD WAY'S THE BEST. In fact, they represent the classic cry of exasperated newsmen everywhere...
...Full Corn. Many obscure masthead adages survive only out of deference to long-dead founders. Until recently, the Denver Post peppered the papers with a passel of Founder-Gambler Frederick Bonfils' hand-me-down maxims, including a standing head that ran over every police story: CRIME NEVER PAYS. One of the most enigmatic samples of U.S. newspaper wisdom comes from Mark 4:28 and runs above the Christian Science Monitor's lucid editorial page. It was adopted at the behest of Founder Mary Baker Eddy, who prescribed the original quote from the King James Version of the Bible...