Word: masthead
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...matter of indisputable historical fact, the oldest U.S. daily is one that does not even bother to advertise the distinction. "Founded by Alexander Hamilton in 1801" reads the masthead of the New York Post, which has been in continuous daily publication since that year* and under the same name.-As for the country's oldest newspaper, daily or weekly, that title, too, lies beyond doubt. In 1837, a 73-year-old Hartford weekly named the Connecticut Courant put forth a daily edition called the Hartford Courant. Thus the U.S.'s oldest newspaper describes an ancestorless continuum that...
...years since the first issue of TIME appeared, the masthead -that list of staff members on this page-has seen many changes. One of the most important of all is made in this issue...
...seem much of a buy. The Volkischer Beo-bachter (People's Observer), was a slender Munich biweekly with barely 7,000 subscribers and not a pfennig in the till. Its new publisher, one Adolf Hitler, made it a daily and rang up a blustering new masthead slogan: "Combat Organ of the National Socialist Movement of Germany...
...resurrection of the Reporter, a union tabloid born during Portland's 1959 newspaper strike and dedicated to mortal battle with the city's other two dailies, the Journal and the Oregonian, brought with it a new masthead slogan: "Portland's Own Newspaper." But while the public response was encouraging-circulation increased by at least 2,000 new subscriptions-there was more to it than sentiment...
...night maneuvers off Jervis Bay, 80 miles south of Sydney. Half a mile astern cruised the destroyer Voyager, acting as rescue ship should any of the Melbourne's planes go into the sea on takeoff or landing. Both ships were blacked out except for running lights and red masthead lights...