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...last the opening article. "A senior speaks to freshmen" in a charming series of confused associations, illustrating that he is less confident, and probably a damned sight more muddled than they. The piece is signed with the initials "HTC" and, as no corresponding name may be found on the masthead, I assume it to be the work of H. Todd Cobey, Lampoon Narthex. Substitution of the improbable monicker "Wyeth Wonderbar" for this office is a typical bit of Lampoon tomfoolery...
...masthead to you for editorializing the arrogant, unctuous Charles Percy into the virtuous hopeful of Republican politics. Knowledgeable Illinois voters have long noted Opportunist Percy's aggressive ambitions to be exceeded only by his unlimited ability to accommodate. Down with the "gentlemanly C"; for a man of proven principle and probity, I subscribe to Oxford Scholar Otto Kerner...
...auction block. Scripps-Howard's bid topped that of Cincinnati's other evening paper, the independently owned Times-Star. In 1958, the Times-Star, which was losing money at the rate of $1,000,000 a year, sold out to the Post and vanished into its masthead...
...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...