Word: mine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After Harvard, the Tribune sent Glasgow to Chicago as its Midwest correspondent. He came to TIME in 1950, assigned to the Chicago bureau. Some of the TIME stories he covered include the Cicero race riots of 1951, the tragic West Frankfort, Ill coal mine disaster, the rise of Adlai Stevenson and his political campaign, some notably quotable reporting on the home life of Dr. Alfred Kinsey for the TIME cover story...
...trains, straphangers accustomed to hiding behind the pages of newspapers peered uncomfortably across the aisles at the naked faces they had not looked at in years. "I'll give you a good example of how much I miss the newspapers," said one Manhattanite. "This week a friend of mine died and was buried before I heard a thing about...
...dazzled when the plane landed, the queen alighted, sped into the city, and, feeling estranged, could not quite believe she was there. "This city and Paris." she wrote in her diary, "were not linked together like two elements belonging to the same system ... I felt invisible to every look. Mine was the incognito of a phantom." Within 48 hours she found a catalyst to materialize her: she went to the hairdresser. There she noted the comforting fact: "These places are the same in every town...
...November 3. May I call to your attention what the Merriam Webster Dictionary has to say about collective nouns? Even old reporters can learn new tricks. Sincerely, John Fox." He must have been very busy as his letter bore the date of Dec. 1, nearly four weeks after mine was sent. I thanked him for his kind directive to an old reporter and told him that I had consulted Merriam-Webster before writing him. Among other references I quoted Webster, under WORLD, with the paradigm, "All the world loves a lover," and not "love a lover." I gave him Century...
...women's line, already on display to catch the winter vacation trade. The suits, in cotton, rayon, wool and nylon, were trimmed with sequins, imitation pearls and rhinestones. They had such names as "Summer Siren" and "Caprice," and were priced from $8.95 to $32.50 (for "Diamond Mine." a rhinestone-studded suit in metallic colors). All would look good on a handsome woman, but would not necessarily make all women handsome. With his new line, President Zehntbauer thinks Jantzen will do even better than in record-breaking 1953) when sales were up 21% to $32 million, and net topped...