Word: masthead
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the proof is not always in the perusing, the independent Toledo Blade and the arch-Republican Los Angeles Times make similar claims to fame. The Blade, according to its masthead, is ONE OF AMERICA'S GREAT NEWSPAPERS. The L.A. Times reaches further, dubs itself ONE OF THE WORLD'S GREAT NEWSPAPERS. The World's Greatest Newspaper? By decree of the late Colonel Bertie McCormick, that title was taken by his own Chicago Daily Tribune in 1911. As a staffer shrugged last week, "We can hardly back down...
...gift from his wealthy father. Almost overnight Hearst turned his wan and unimpressive present into the gaudy forerunner of a 26-paper chain,* and within four years he had sent it soaring ahead of the rival Chronicle on the way to a supremacy reflected in the proud masthead boast: "The monarch of the dailies." Last week, after nearly seven decades as Northern California's biggest and most influential newspaper, the Examiner was deep in a fight to see who would be king of the mountain. Once again its opponent was the Chronicle -though the heavy loser in time might...
...extinguished Beacon might wind up behind a hyphen on the masthead of the Eagle's afternoon edition, and room may be found for a few Beacon editorial hands on the Eagle's staff. But what really interested the city, after 32 years on a starvation newspaper diet, was a possibility raised by the dying Beacon itself in a farewell editorial: "It may be that Wichitans will read better newspapers than they have seen...
TIME'S editors (married men, largely) admit a deep and abiding interest in women, and a considerable debt to them. The masthead contains the names of 67 women editorial staffers. Despite all this expertise, the editors somehow still find women politicians-and women-an always fascinating, sometimes baffling and ever-changing story...
Sister Lorenzina has practical proof for her point: listed on the masthead by her given name of Olga Guidetti, she is the editor of a not-quite-slick-paper magazine named Cosi (Thus), which is published and staffed by the Daughters of St. Paul and is a successful weekly entry in the fiercely competitive Italian field of popular magazines for women...