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...high: "To see life; to see the world; to eyewitness great events." In modern journalism there had been many attempts to hit this target; most of the tries (like Midweek Pictorial) had been faltering. The editors, gathered in a 51st-floor room in Manhattan, wanted a picture magazine that could keep pace with, and even accelerate, the swift advance of camera and printing techniques. They put out two trial issues (called Dummy and Rehearsal) and were still looking about for a better name than Show-Book. Shortly before their first deadline they found it, bought (for $92,000) the title...
...rest of the Varsity team turned its attention to Coach Chief Boston's spirited Junior Varsity club, and the two squads participated in a long, game-like scrimmage. Usually, midweek scrimmages are mere drudgery for the Jayvees, who operate exclusively on the defense and take their lumps...
...Exchange's new campaign to keep lambs from being shorn got unexpectedly efficient cooperation from the market itself. The day the ads appeared, stock prices fell 5½ points, the sharpest break since the British debacle at Dunkirk in 1940. By midweek the Dow-Jones industrial average had slipped to 192.38, wiping out the gains of two months. Cause of the break: stock buyers who had been betting that settlement of the steel strike would bring inflationary price raises had changed their minds...
...words of the Army & Navy's Pearl Harbor reports. It was quite a job. The Times flew the texts up from Washington, piled up 80 hours of printers' overtime in setting it, tossed out four pages of advertising, dipped into its paper rations to boost its average midweek 155 columns of news to 283 columns, and hit the streets with the full text seven and a half hours after getting...
...midweek, one of the divisions, the vast, home laundry plant (washing machines, ironers, etc.), had ground to a stop. By week's end, the plant was purged of most of its $750,000 worth of machinery that had beaten out $23 million in war goods since January...