Word: masthead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Conservative intellectuals are aficionados of the wink, full of rollicking good fun, by nature a sly sort. Hence, the masthead of The American Spectator contains the following witticisms: it lists a "chief saloon correspondent," and makes the contention that "Solitary, Poor, Nasty, Brutish and Short" has been reatained as the periodical's legal counsel. And that...
...written a novel highly critical of the "Gray Lady," transparently disguised here as the New York "Globe," (Just in case readers don't get the message, they are quickly told three times in the novel's first three pages of the Globe's "stately," "black" and "great" Corinthian masthead.) True Bearing is a novel about The Times; about journalism and reporting; about shipping; about relationships; about integrity...
...until the FBI came to the hotel and the newspapers announced that the man was a communist. Years later, when the future detective started a magazine of political satire with two friends in law school, one of the friends asked that his name not appear on the magazine masthead, because "subversives might take over after we've left, and then we could get into trouble...
Certainly the most durable TIME column has been the masthead. Each week it carries the names of the editorial and publishing people most responsible for producing the magazine. With this issue a familiar name is missing. Andrew Heiskell, Time Inc. chairman and chief executive officer, retired...
Relations between Manning, 60, and the volatile Zuckerman, 43, had been tenuous from the start. The situation deteriorated when, after promising to stay away from editorial decisions, Zuckerman labeled himself chairman of the editorial board atop the magazine's July masthead. Insiders say he has been looking for a younger man all along to attract newer talent and give the 123-year-old monthly more "energy," which, he says, had been lacking. Manning, a former Under Secretary of State and TIME senior editor, leaves the Atlantic with four National Magazine Awards (1971-73 and 1979) and its highest circulation...