Word: masthead
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...past has provided more than half of the Review's $2000 annual budget and has been listed as the publisher in the Review's masthead since the magazine's inception in the early 1970s...
...were satirical. From parroting to sycophancy, there is the spectacle of the Forum's "Advisory Board," a cluster of Harvard's brightest superstars, linked only by the instant recognizability of their names. Do only such prestigious tenured professors make fitting advisors? Or do their names look great on the masthead? (That eleven of the twelve advisers are men and all of them white is, to be honest, more representative if Harvard then of the overt prejudices of the Forum's editors...
...rather shabby pay," Coleridge tried in vain to join its staff, and Dickens endured its critical contempt. It accompanied the Light Brigade to the Valley of Death in the Crimea, and climbed with Edmund Hillary up Mount Everest. Although it proudly displays the royal coat of arms on its masthead, in an 1830 obituary it described the standard of conduct of King George IV as "little higher than that of animal indulgence," and when Queen Victoria wrote a letter answering its criticism, the editors declined to publish it on the ground that they had printed one letter from her already...
Attentive readers of the bylines that follow most TIME stories have probably noticed that occasionally the name of a reporter contributing to a story is not on the masthead at the front of the magazine. The reason is that the name belongs to a "stringer," one of the more than 300 mostly part-time reporters across the U.S. and round the world who supplement the work of TIME'S corps of correspondents. They usually serve in cities, or even countries, where the magazine has no news bureaus. Often they are staff journalists with news agencies or local newspapers. Some...
Fram, who emerged the victor, had the weighty responsibility of naming the rest of the masthead. After deliberating for a week, he filled the top executive spots with his former adversaries...