Word: masthead
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, after a seven-day secret investigation, a Navy court of inquiry offered only fragmentary answers. Its summary pointed out that "U.S.S. Liberty was in international waters, properly marked as to her identity." A 5-ft. by 8-ft. U.S. flag flew at the masthead, must surely have been seen by three separate Israeli planes that surveyed the ship during the morning. Her name was lettered on the stern in English, which could hardly have been confused with the Arabic script on Egyptian ships. "The court produced evidence that the Israeli armed forces had ample opportunity to identify Liberty...
...make sure that any future effort to suppress Praxis will bring international embarrassment to Tito, the editors hit upon the strategy of listing on their masthead the flock of Westerners and Marxists from other Eastern European countries who serve on its advisory board. Among those on the new masthead: Harvard Sociologist David Riesman, who said that he allowed his name to be used because he admires the magazine's work and its courage in putting non-Communists on its board...
...three of four articles that don't deal with games, the only really notable one is Tom LaFarge's Ibis-Blot introduction. The Ibis-Blot introduction is the prose found under the masthead, usually two or three incomprehensible paragraphs. The masthead page has always been a bastion of mysterious tradition-who is that smug guy passed out on the keg, anyway? LaFarge has made charming personalities out of the three traditional figures, Ibis, Jester, and Blot. At least we get a hint as to who they are any way they are there. LaFarge has exploited the Castle mystique...
...nude. She agreed, became "Janet Pilgrim" and appeared in the July 1955 issue. The circulation department got its machine, and "Janet" became, for a while, head of Playboy's readers' service department. She has since married and left for Texas, though she is still listed on the masthead...
...point is that the author of this filthy act of vampirism deserves the contempt not only of those who would speak no evil of the dead, but of those who applaud such lonely acts of disinterested heroism as were performed by the social philanthropist whose name once graced your masthead...